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Detach yourself from desire. You don’t need anyone. And you don’t need anything.

Remind yourself that losing everything you have now might be, above all, a relief. Remind yourself that you have the capacity to see beyond merely how you feel. Remind yourself of how far you’ve come—to be among the few to reach a point in your existence where nothing more that happens in this life is a mystery, a surprise, or a source of misery. You understand the human condition such that you no longer have to wander aimlessly; now, I can merely wander, for the sake of wandering.

But use this not as an escape, nor an excuse not to try. All this is to remind yourself to not be afraid—to not be chained to the ephemeral, to our tenuous, transitory definitions of what is important. Against all odds, you are blessed to have the right mindset, and the right heart. Do not let yourself, under any circumstance, let your mind or your heart become mired in trivialities and the banal; you’ve moved far past that now, and that is not what you are called to do.