To be a hero in our time is to journey toward the only territory that remains unexplored, the deeper more subtle realms of the human experience.

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “… if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unimagined in common hours.  If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.  Now put foundations under them.”

Once we hold the preciousness of life and the possibility of human flourishing near and dear, its remembrance no longer fades with the busyness of daily life.  Then all thoughts, speech, and action begin to be measured by a different standard.  Rather than patching together an ordinary life and ordinary health from the partial opportunities laid out by our current culture, we begin to demand more from ourselves.  We are willing to set out on this new adventure in search of life’s greatest treasure, the flourishing of human health, happiness, and wholeness.