So, setting aside for now where we’re heading, let’s take a look at the importance and pleasure of living a considered life. I am talking about engaging with and owning our life stories; of being able to step back far enough to see them for what they are; of finding a way of living that has come from due thought rather than a passive immersion in the tangles of everyday distractions. Our philosophy can be highly flexible and subject to great changes, but the important point, I believe, is to have one, and one that enables us to live more fully. It does not need to be easily describable in its
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