The Trials of the Wilderness
What should it profit a man should he gain the whole world, but lose his soul?
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Uncertainty
The more I have embraced uncertainty, the more unexpected good has come to me — this is Grace, or Serendipity. The acceptance of uncertain futures likewise eases the pain of accepting the certainties circumscribing action in the present, and the immutability of the past.