Are your challenges really so challenging? Are your trials and tribulations so taxing? Or have you become soft and weak, coddled by the trappings of society and bound up by infantile ego demands?
Could you survive on the steppe? Could you reach down inside yourself and draw out a calmness, a focus, a hardness, that make the trumped-up stresses of modern life seem as nothing?
Could you find peace as the eagle… or the wolf?
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