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Learning to fall

The art of surrender

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Jacinta Parsons
Aug 01, 2025
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This week, I have been watching, over and over again, that grandest of human quests – when a human surrenders to the physics of the world, and against everything that their cells are screaming, allow for the inevitability of gravity. Tethered to the ground as we are, we must face the great impasse of our own limitations and the incongruity, that is, of …

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