"We’re seeing a huge shattering of life itself. And yet, having been with Rilke, his trust in life is still with me. And so I trust being with life, even though life — the web of life might crumble, but then I’m still with it. I’ll be with it anyway, even in the crumbling."

As for knowing with certainty what category a given want or desire falls into—certainty is the ego-mind’s game. As the saying goes, “There is nothing certain in this world other than death and taxes.” Let go of the mind’s looking for certainty (because it’s just another way that the ego seeks to gain advantage) and you will become far more intuitiv

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