Four Thousand Weeks – Quote 195

You find, Jensen writes, that “the civilized you died. The manufactured, fabricated, stamped, molded you died. The victim died.” And the “you” that remains is more alive than before. More ready for action, but also more joyful, because it turns out that when you’re open enough to confront how things really are, you’re open enough to let all the good things in more fully, too, on their own terms, instead of trying to use them to bolster your need to know that everything will turn out fine.