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We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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