A shadow has followed me for 70 years. The shadow is a question - a question of life and its purpose. As a child the question was not articulated in words, but it was present as feeling. And as I grew older the question transformed again and again, always changing but at the core remaining the same.
In college, when I was introduced to the writings of Plato, I met a friend; his name is Socrates. Socrates said: "An unexamined life is not worth living." The examination of one's life does not occur only at 18 years of age, or 24 or 30 or even 60. It happe more...