outcome is determined by our inner resources—our spirit, will, belief, and focus.

isotropic—

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. —MICHELANGELO

As legendary playwright Christopher Fry reminds us: Who apart From ourselves, can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats?12

coalescing

strewn

Perhaps a nineteenth-century synonym comes closer—blankness—a poetic term for the wiping clean that this experience can provide. It hints, too, at the limitlessness that often comes next.10

truancy.

Lord Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam and “Ulysses,” which famously closes with the final lines: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.