Kleiner Perkins Partner — and @Thrive Global board member — @mamoonha recently returned from Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. In his own words: “Faith is really important to me, and it’s also deeply rooted in every encounter I have with every person. Part of the beauty of Hajj is that it’s two million people who come from all walks of life, with all the different skin tones in the world. Yet in front of God, we’re all one and we’re all the same. It roots you in the question: how do you treat each other as human beings? That has become a moral compass for me. Every interaction matters—whether it’s with a six-year-old child or a thirty-year-old billionaire founder. How do you treat each other? How do you give them respect, dignity, and attention in that moment in time? I’ve tried to live my life that way. Faith reminds me of it every day.” While the world provides plenty of insistent, flashing, high-volume signals directing us to climb higher up the ladder, there are almost no worldly signals reminding us to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder and to connect to that place from which everything is possible. Thank you, Mamoon, for reminding us there is more to life than our jobs, our ambitions and our to-do lists. And that, in the end, life is shaped from the inside out.