A search for novelty that terminates in an already well-established truth is the best outcome. Genuine, radical novelty isolates; it makes one alien and insulting; it is unbearably lonely. An original new way to see or say something familiar invests the familiar with new energy and depth, and is welcome in the world. Not that we should abandon the search for the new – but we ought to accept the gift of reinvention when it comes to us.

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Longing is the core of mystery
Longing itself brings the cure
The only rule is suffer the pain.

Your desire must be disciplined,
And what you want to happen
In time, sacrificed.

– Rumi

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“The advantage of a bad memory is that, one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.” – Nietzsche