🧩 Philosophy Sep 9, 2026 · Maria Popova

The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change

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The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change
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“There is no description of a life without an account of the changes that are possible within it.”

When answering the Orion questionnaire, a question stopped me up short by contracting an incomprehensible expanse of complexity into a binary:
Are you the same person you were as a child?
It is fundamentally a question about change — its possibility and its paradoxes, our yearning for it and our ambivalence toward it. Here I am, living on a different landmass from the one I was

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