All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.
What you plan is too small for you to live.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.
The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.