It is said that each of us is offered an endless number of opportunities to “awaken.” That life is filled with these mini-alarm clocks, each tolling at different times and frequencies and each affording us an opportunity to stop, if only for a moment, and reconsider everything we believe to be true about ourselves and the world around us. If we ignore them long enough bigger alarms sound until, at long last, we no longer can ignore the jarring intrusion…