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challenges go from being permanent and insurmountable to impermanent and manageable.
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
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 moreEach morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one—that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes.
Anthony Doerr • Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel
I ever used those words — “from” and “to” — because I realized you don’t leave it behind you. From then on, it was always “despair and empowerment” because the question of how to deal with your despair is ongoing.