“… to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender…”

—  Rebecca Solnit

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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Author and essayist from United States 1961

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