Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever. – Herman Melville – at Pacifica, CA

"All human beings are in a quandary, but some are unable to cope with it: psychopathology depends on not merely on the presence of stress but on the interaction between ubiquitious stress and the individual's mechanims for defense." — Irvin Yalom Absolutely no one has it all figured out. But it helps to try to figure out some of it.

O Faithful Man of solitary life... learn the lessons of mastery over the body, of a meek spirit, of purity of mind, of destruction of pride. — St. Basil the Great, Letter XLIII (Admonition to the Young)

Your best attempts at creating a perfectly safe life will end up ruining you.