Love is a deep, rich and fulfilling emotion. You can’t really know it until it happens, and everyone seems to want it in their lives. It’s supposed to be better to have had it and lost it than to have never known it at all. Love, peace and joy are in a special category for human consciousness.

Anger and pride are what is typical among people, especially in any modern metropolis city state. They are mostly the same buildings. The climate and language might be different, but the markets are the same.

Most people by my estimation are angry, working to get something for themselves, by will, to feel genuine pride. Many simply delude themselves into feeling proud by accessorizing brands.

I worked for 2 years on getting past pride. But it's like that work is in one realm, and the experience is in another -- lived reality -- where guilt and shame persist.

The way past guilt and shame is genuine sacrifice.