Without hope of resolution - by Sasha Chapin
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Without hope of resolution ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sasha Chapin Jun 11, 2026 402 49 62 Share Recently, a young and gifted friend of mine asked me how she could find inner peace. She told me that one part of her wanted to be ambitious, to create masterworks and find her limits, and another part of her just wanted to accept everything, to relax into presence and joy. How could she reconcile these parts of herself, finding the perfect balance? My answer is to give up immediately on that idea. There’s no reason to believe that you will find persistent balance between these conflicting elements of your psycholog
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