Arizona State University - Sun Devil Spark / Sahuaro Yearbook (Tempe, AZ)

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A small harp and a tiny flute make sounds too subtle to hear for those who do not take time to think or to listen for the first strains of meaning. Ecce Homo got a voice inside me that tells me exactly what is right and what is wrong. For a while I had drugged the voice into confusion. Now it has caught up with me. Maybe it ' s conscience. Maybe it ' s God. But it ' s there in me and everybody. The only thing left is to follow it. Suddenly, you are running the world instead of letting the world run you. Then you have a real psychedelic experience. Your mind expands all over the place. You ' ve got a purpose and a goal and you ' ve discovered the dignity of a human being. —author unknown. Yes, yes I think I understand. Bitter, painful honesty, that ' s something that Rationalization will never understand. What you ' re saying is that if life is to be worth-while it must have logos—meaning. Or as Nietzsche once said: He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. Yet I feel so alienated, so small. Meaning for one is not for two and meaning for me is not meaning for you. 13

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Let us, you and I, stop our senseless floundering; it is time we breathe again and realize our surroundings. Hocus pocus get a focus on your-self. 12

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Without acting a part look to yourself for the source of art, and quietly and uniquely reproduce yourself just as you are. Yevgeny Yevtushenko. How can I maintain my identity and find meaning in a world that is so complex that it makes the Self a Lilliputian? I is singular, does that make me insignificant and worthless? Am I to challenge the whole world for the why of my existence? These indeed are despairing thoughts. No wonder I feel alienated and confused. Through crowded corridors of dreams that seek to be, reality and I may never meet; through alleyways of loneliness I keep, a beacon searching for my Self. Now at last I ' m beginning to see that the DNA of Meaning is to be found within the individual individual. Not mass What is truly needed is the strength and courage for each of us to develop our own internal guidance system that will through experience and the of potentials, keep us balanced in a world that wobbles. There are no uniform answers for of life. For the problems of life there are no uniform answers. Answers for the problems of life are not uniform. Different As Is new Perspective 14 Would the way be clear with an answered why?