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we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.
This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock bo
... See moreAuthenticity is honoring yourself and others with equal sensitivity to the shifting conditions on the ground. When you are humbled, when you need to adjust your behavior, when you recognize that you’ve strayed from your ideals, those are the exact moments when joy is knocking on your door, asking to come in and light up your life in new ways.
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... See more“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen