A unique challenge in life is reconciling the journey upwards with the journey downwards. It's figuring out how to pursue excellence and self-evolution, while simultaneously accepting limitation and humiliation...how to metamorphose into our highest form while at the same time dissolve into egolessness.
My faith is that the paradox may be resolved by an "integration of opposites", as Jung put it. A tree flowers toward the celestial heights, while its roots penetrate deeper into the heart of the earthβwithout any contradiction. Can I become like a tree? Both toward the light, and toward the darkness.
I once saw a Tweet that said "if your car is not older than Bitcoin, then you're not stacking sats hard enough." Well, my 2008 Honda CRV now has no air conditioning. A bird flew in my car while I was driving windows down causing a bit of mayhem. Wife says I've taken this too far.