you can't outsource calm

“Zen is the ‘spirit of the valley,’ not the mountaintop. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.” Robert Pirsig

There is something powerful in how our inner world shapes our outer world.

Or, better put, how our outer world can’t fundamentally fix what’s messy inside.

As individuals, we can only go so far with escaping …