There Is More Than One Answer

 

First, try to imagine — or more precisely, to feel it closely while sitting in stillness: the future you has already broken through the deadlock in front of you.

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In that moment, what is the state of your heart?

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Once that composure from the future flows into you, who is to say your future cannot be your present?

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When the future you overlaps with the present you, a dilemma that seemed unsolvable suddenly gives rise to choices you could not perceive before. Like two trains bound to collide, spared a mutually destructive fate by the sudden appearance of several new tracks.

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If you only know how to circle within the existing frame, then no matter how thoroughly you study it, no matter how much you long for a win-win, the tragedy of wounding each other beyond repair is hard to avoid.

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Relax. Slip deftly out of the bindings you were in, and settle a body and mind stretched too tight. When you no longer cling to one particular outcome, when you are willing to accept every possibility and look at the situation again, the options that an anxious you could never have noticed finally have room to surface.

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Sometimes a shift in attitude is worth far more than a correct answer.