27 Dec James Baldwin quote
Not everything that is
faced can be changed.
But nothing can be changed
until it is faced.
until it is faced.
– James Baldwin
There’s something profound in accepting things as they are, not pushing for them to be different, to be changed. There are things in life that can’t be changed. People encounter this a lot when they get a terminal illness or their spouse leaves them and doesn’t want to come back.
Some things can’t be changed.
Life comes in and intrudes on the way we think it should happen. We’re asked in those moments to let go of the protective defenses that have shielded us and kept us buffered from the storm.
What can happen is we can change how we encounter those experiences. That happens when we meet the experience, when we face it for what it is. Who are we to become through the experience of life even when we can’t change the outside reality of it?