Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.

David Abram
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The world is a place of constant change and uncertainty. We cannot predict what will happen because we do not know the future. The only thing we can do is to make changes and adapt to any situation. The best way to cope with this uncertainty is to accept that we cannot always control our surroundings and that nothing in life is certain.

Source: Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

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