[Spirit Dancer]

In a world in which we are exposed to more information,
more options, more philosophies, more perspectives
than ever before, in which we must choose the values
by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow
some tradition for no better reason than that our own
parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own
judgment and trust our own intelligence—to look at the
world through our own eyes—to chart our course and think
through how to achieve the future we want, to commit
ourselves to continuous questioning and learning—to be,
in a word, self-responsible.

Nathaniel Branden