Room for Reflection.

Where there is no room for reflection, there is none either for justice or prudence.

- Simone Weil

Taking time to Step Back is the beginning of acting justly and with prudence.

Allowing ourselves to indulge in feeling what we feel - to be fully absorbed in ourselves as if we are all that matters - to stare in the mirror of our self-pity.

Only in fixing on our reflection can we truly recognise and understand the smallness and irrelevance of our concerns for self, in comparison to all the misery and mystery lying beyond the frame of our ego. We laugh at the absurdity of what a moment, or hour, or day ago, seemed so important and noble and righteous: our feelings.

Only after Step 1 can we turn our full attention to the task at hand: Justice.