Death and taxes rate quite high in accountability: we can "trust" that their time will come! Numbers have been seen as a substitute to trust, as they provide a way to measure whether we have done what we say we would. Yet is that really true? Isn't Peace of mind coming from the knowing that we acted in integrity with ourselves - no matter what the scale, the lab work or the bank statement may say? When dissatisfied, we make numbers our tyrants, pushing us to reach a health goal or convincing us that we need to hit a target to maintain funding. We use them to hide the screech of a voice telling us that we are not enough, that we don't have enough and that we don't do enough. In so doing, we lie to ourselves.

Numbers are much more than a replacement for trust or a motivation to achieve. They have life. As offered by John Forbes Nash, Jr. "you don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers." You just have to be a feeler, a music lover, a warrior of the heart. There are infinite ways to communicate; some better than others. Numbers are potentially the most elegant of all!

Their signals and patterns are all around us. We just have to open to seeing them, and be willing to read them, similarly to the way an animal psychic would communicate with a cat or a bird. How we read these subtle cues can help determine the events of our lives. Numbers are symmetrical; they come in pairs - in pairs of animals. It's easy to see: just write down the nine digits on a single row. 5 is dead center; around 5 is the pair of 4 and 6, then extending out comes the pair of 3 and 7, then 2 and 8, and finally 1 and 9. Each pair forms a 10 - espousing the perfect symmetry that the language of the universe. Imagine that: what if numbers were in fact letters?