A possible response to my feelings of this morning:
If you want to become whole,
let yourself be partial.
If you want to become straight,
let yourself be crooked.
If you want to become full,
let yourself be empty.
If you want to be reborn,
let yourself die.
If you want to be given everything,
give everything up.
[From Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching; I'm a Mitchell fan – his Rilke translations are the best, ever.]
Not that I ever feel that I can live up to such levels of self-awareness, but... at least it suggests that I may be on some productive path, rather than merely a dead end....
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