Progress begins with compassion — but without humility, it can become something else. This essay explores how movements for justice can drift toward dogma, and why the greatest risk of moral certainty is becoming what we set out to resist.

Morality is neither fixed nor arbitrary. It shifts over time, but something deeper often remains. Whether you believe right and wrong are relative or absolute, the challenge is the same: to act with humility, to listen well, and to live as if it matters.

The soul is not a drive. It does not push or plan. It waits, it aches, it whispers often in our silence, sometimes in our breaking. What happens when we learn to listen?