CW: In your most recent newsletter you said: “Reality doesn’t need you to operate it”.OB: I’m quoting Michael Singer. I want to pop in there and say this is not my sort of phrase, but yeah. And somebody else sent me in response to that, another way of expressing the same idea, which was something like “let go or be dragged” basically, right? Like, those are your options.

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