Real Security

Real security means contemplating death, not pretending it doesn’t exist.
It means not running from loss, but feeling it, surrendering to sorrow, entering grief.
Real security is not knowing something when you don’t know it.
Real security cannot be bought or arranged or accomplished with bombs.
It is deeper. It is a process.
It is the acute awareness that we are all utterly interdependent
and that one action by one being in one town has consequences everywhere.
Real security is the ability to tolerate mystery, complexity, ambiguity—
indeed hungering for these things.
-Eva Ensler