PART VHOW DO YOU RETIRE A SAINT?On Change and Integrity

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence. . . when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture butwithin oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual lifebecomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony inits unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in themidst of such paradox. … There are simply no answers tosome of the great pressing questions. You continue tolive them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaninginto the light.

—Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams

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