There is a certain innocence about beginning, with its excitement and promise of something new.\u00c2\u00a0 But this will emerge only through undertaking some voyage into the unknown.\u00c2\u00a0 And no one can foretell what the unknown might yield.\u00c2\u00a0 There are journeys we have begun that have brought us great inner riches and refinement; but we had to travel through dark valleys of difficulty and suffering.\u00c2\u00a0 Had we known at the beginning what the journey would demand of us, we might never have set out.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet the rewards and gifts became vital to who we are.\u00c2\u00a0 Through the innocence of beginning we are often seduced into growth.<\/p>\n
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