🧩 Philosophy 22h ago · Maria Popova

How to Change Your Life

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How to Change Your Life
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HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE
by Maria Popova
Don’t try to wash
your tired hands
clean from the bloodshed
of your private wars.
Just unclench the fist
that has come to feel like home
and let the story slip
between your trembling fingers
into the river of time,
silver and indifferent.
You may have to kneel
for days
       or decades
in a pool of silence
blue and lonely as a heron
but it will be there,
the small green stone
lying at the bottom
lustrous with a pea

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