Spoiler: But a word of caution: one can usually flee a social situation or a heated confrontation, on most counts, but one cannot flee one's own mind.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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