The moment I look back in my life and…

Page 251 The moment I look back in my life and think God there are those are the moments that made me were moments of struggle. Hope is brokenhearted on the way to becoming wholehearted. Hope is a function of struggle. I asked the evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson if there's something nonsensical to in an evolutionary terms about the way we human sometimes progress by relearning things we once knew and forgot here's how he answers. They fish can think itself out of water and no longer be able to survive or thrive. Human invention can do the equivalent of taking us out of water and billion clever ways. reliving relearning the role struggle plays and growing up. Rediscovering real food or the verifying effect of green spaces in the middle of common life these are less reversals than a waking up to what we need and evolutionary

— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Becoming wise by Krista Tippett

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It makes you steady — and a steady pilot in rough air is worth more than a calm sky to a frightened one. The struggles you fly through this way are very often the ones that, looking back, you will say made you; hope itself is broken-hearted on its way to becoming whole-hearted. To my descendants: — Takeoff Into Chaos

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