Highlighted by Jeremy Martin
From A Decade Without the Influence by Sam Lansky
She said: What if it’s not about whether you can or not? What if it’s about choosing to experience life not heightened or dulled, not amplified or quieted, not harder or softer, but exactly as it is? What if it’s about trusting that when life is joyful or miserable or thrilling or boring, it is that way because it is supposed to be, not because it needs drugs or alcohol to make it more fun or more tolerable? And what if you get to be present for that—for all of it?