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We are carried along by everything that has come before, and far more than we can understand.

“This must be the key to happiness”… he was stunned by the ease and simplicity of it all: you could clear your own horizon. Just keep hoping for the best, stop worrying about the worst, stop fighting hard. The fighting pushed away the very thing you were trying to hold on to- most terrified of losing.

“Things aren’t falling apart, they’re going not changing…” suddenly he could hold all the possible dangers of the world within his imagination and not mind one whit. For the moment at least, the horizon ahead looked free and clear.