"To truly come home to yourself,
to earn your own trust and respect,
you have to unseat the authoritarian-tyrant from the throne of your consciousness.
You cannot do this by force;
that only perpetuates the cycle of cruelty.
Instead you must cultivate, courageously, a concerted counter-insurgency of kindness, curiosity, and humor.
Liberate your inner artist, journalist and comedian.
Break them out of the prison of your fears.
Then, together, perform the most daring of heists:
to retrieve the Jewel of Life,
locked up deep within the tyrant's palace."
-- Visakan Veerasamy