When a wild horse is tamed and effectively domesticated it is referred to as being broken: it's spirit has been broken rendering it slave to its owner. In a sense we are no different, our spirits have been broken by the need to conform to arbitrary models of respectability, hence the prevailing depression in/of our civilized society. We desperately need to heal our broken spirits, and reclaim our long lost ferality, not with antidepressants but by intelligently searching out oppression (always the cause of depression) and fighting it. Real passion always leads to confrontation and conflict because it reveals limitations and constraints that, in a state of passion, are intolerable. This is something fighters and athletes, those who use spirit to battle physical limitations, understand well, and which is why taiji, our chosen discipline, is primarily a physical and fighting art.