There's this great line in the Batman Begins movie (yeah, I'm going there) when Bruce Wayne, in an effort to deflect attention from his growing persona, heads off to a big hotel dinner with two gorgeous European women who disrobe and swim in the pricey fountain. He hands the hotel owner a check and then marches out with the girls, wet and in bathrobes, draped on his arm. On the way out, the passes the love of his life, who is now a prosecuter for Gotham, and stutters out, "all this, this isn't me." To which she replies, "I'ts not who you are underneath. It's what you do that defines you." Katharine, I think we have lost so much of this kind of simple wisdom in our waving around of labels and definitions. The hardest possible work is the daily honest assessment of what we say, how we think and how we show up. Ultimately labels are meaningless. I love your point: years ago, back in 1985, I heard a speech wherein the man at the lectern handed me my life's purpose: Move People's Lives. There is no way I can do that without moving my own first, consistently, and without mercy keeping an eye on where I am in or out of integrity. I often fail but that's the whole point. There's a marvelous quote from the Nobel winning Poet Laureat Rabindranath Tagore wherein he entreats God : "Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." Tagore is a very worthwhile read.