There is no way to suppress change…not even in heaven; there is only a choice between a way of living which allows constant, if gradual alterations and a way of living that combines great control and cataclysmic upheavals. Those who panic and bind the trickster choose the latter path. It would be better to learn to play with him, better especially to develop skills (cultural, spiritual, artistic) that allow some commerce with accident, and some acceptance of the changes that contingency will always engender. Lewis Hyde
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The quote above was spoken by the Zen monk and poet, R. H. Blyth, in reaction to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki during World War II. He was speaking about the constant changes that happen in our world and how it is up to us to accept these changes in order to live in harmony with what is going on around us.

Source: Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, And Art

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