Friends are those who love us enough to trust what we’re doing even if they themselves have yet to fully understand the implications of it. Instead, they talk to us and with us and for us. They ring us round with a sense of security. They make life with all its confusion possible. Friends such as these keep us grounded in reality. They provide the space and the sense of emotional stability that contemplation demands. They give us the space to rethink it all, to ask ourselves again what life demands of us, what morality demands of us, what courage demands of us. In touch with the innermost
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