“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions,” observed 17th century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, “the more you become a lover of what is.”
It is often exciting to imagine other possibilities for our lives.
But Spinoza reminds us to love what is occurring in our lives right now is how to understand who we are and not who we might become. What we love, in other words, is who we are.
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