Operating from sanity, as I mentioned, can feel awkward at first. Yet beneath the awkwardness, there’s often almost immediately a strange new kind of satisfaction. You feel more engrossed in your experience, and like you’re exerting more influence over the world, even though you’ve achieved that by relaxing rather than intensifying your attempts to feel in control of it. Life certainly doesn’t become problem-free and, what’s more, you’re no longer so confident it ever will. But your problems start to feel more tractable and interesting, and often enough you find you can approach them with
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