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Surrender to Uncertainty

When you make space for impermanence and imperfection, you align yourself with nature and with love itself.

Heather Havrilesky
Jan 29, 2024
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Shipwreck in Pink (1958) by Dorothea Tanning

Do you have emotional space in your life that doesn’t always boil down to conflict, trouble, ambivalence, struggle, and a fixation on changing something that feels unchangeable? I had this habit for years, and now that I’m less susceptible to it, I look back and wonder how it served me. Every few weeks, I woul…

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