March 12-A, 2023

Clarity and insight, Kid.
Clarity and insight.

Clarity and insight are essential
in the work of finding our way
to the way.

With enough of the right kind of experience,
we can find our own way
to clarity and insight over time.

We can shorten the length of time
by taking advantage of the experience
of others.

We all need the right kind of sounding boards
in our life--
people who can listen us 
to the point of being able to hear ourselves speaking.

The best psychotherapists
are excellent sounding boards,
and can help us recognize 
our conflicts and contradictions,
and the necessity of reconciling
what can be reconciled,
and reconciling ourselves to 
walking two paths at the same time
with mutually exclusive necessities
that cannot be reconciled or abandoned.

Bearing the pain of our contraries
and living on
is sometimes as reconciled as we can be.

We learn to do that by doing it,
making concessions,
redrawing lines,
finding ways to do what needs to be done,
anyway, 
nevertheless,
even so--
and pressing on,
pressing on.

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