It is true that I create over and over again the same difficulties for myself in order to struggle over and over again to master them [but] to continually struggle against the same problem and to continually fail to dominate it brings a feeling of frustration and a kind of paralysis. What is necessary to life, to livingness, is to move on, in other words to move from one kind of problem to another.
Anaïs Nin in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953.
Song: “Tightrope” by Yeasayer