Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest. Joshua 1:9

Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.

If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron? my answer is "How should I know?"? I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries? I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.