Divorced from the cosmos from nature from society and from each other we have become fractured and fragmented.

If you're lucky like me your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate that's a very sad place to be.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

When you are not treated seriously you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.