Yet, in all environs, the most important navigation is of the self. The sufferance of the snowy hill between empty horizons, or the sudden crowd of French disembarking a tour bus, are challenges that will wither an uncharted soul. When the sea within is unknown, the obstacles of the outside world cannot be placed within a story of purpose. They are therefore overcome without reward, the very success merely adding additional chains of grudge and resentment. A well-mapped internal world allows the soul to anchor each day by islands of meaning. There it authors the story it means to tell, and
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