No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality. Wendell Berry
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The idea that we can only experience life fully when we accept our partiality is a paradox. Clearly, the idea is true to some extent; we all need to accept and deal with our partiality in some way. But if we take it too far, we end up denying it altogether. "Do not seek the unattainable," Martin Buber wrote in his book I and Thou , "for then you will lose that for which you search."

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