Need to get out more?

We think we want the answers. But really what we want are the problems.*
Gabe Anderson

Give me sober activism anytime, rather than rose-tined fatalism.**
Viktor Frankl

Answers are like home,
Questions, problems, are like journeys –
We need both, but the snag can be that
we stay in when we need to get out more.^

*Gabe Anderson’s blog: Hanayama;
**Viktor Frankl’s Yes to Life;
^Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote about how we are born with two contradictory sets of instructions: conservative and expansive; the first requires little encouragement, not so the second – where curiosity and creativity dwell.

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