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A lone figure taking a step at a misty mountain crossroads

Epictetus

Uncertainty

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Prototype paraphrase · not a quotation

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A solitary person standing on firm ground as a weathered shadow blends into warm light

Carl Rogers

Acceptance

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An adult and a childlike reflection looking through rain toward a luminous city

Henry David Thoreau

Wonder

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A craftsman carefully aligning one stone within a magnificent structure under construction

Marcus Aurelius

Progress

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A calm ocean trough between two graceful waves as warm light rises at the horizon

Kahlil Gibran

Tides

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A mature olive tree growing in its natural irregular form at dawn

Walt Whitman

Enough

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A migrating bird joining a wider formation above a quiet wetland at blue hour

John Donne

Belonging

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طريق يغادر غابة ميتة ويلتف حول شجرة ساقطة باتجاه غابة خضراء

كاكوزو أوكاكورا

التكيّف

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ترجمة عربية تحريرية عن النص الإنجليزي الأصلي

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A solitary diver descending from the luminous ocean surface toward a vast hidden world below

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Depth

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An open timber window in a pale stone room, looking onto an olive tree and a quiet garden wall.

Henry David Thoreau

Notice

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Exact sentence from the journal

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A shaded plaster wall and stone seat beside the same open garden window.

Marcus Aurelius

Within

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Exact wording in this English translation

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A folded linen cloth and a plain ceramic cup on the stone seat beneath the garden window.

Aristotle

Measure

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Excerpt; the ellipsis marks the continuing sentence

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Two curving river channels cross a pale gravel plain.

Walt Whitman

Revision

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Exact three-line excerpt in the linked edition

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A stone promenade follows a quiet inlet around a bend softened by sea mist.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Embracing Uncertainty

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Short translated excerpt; ellipses mark omitted text.

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An open roof in a pale stone pavilion frames the sky and cedar branches.

Epictetus

A Next Step

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Opening sentence in the linked English edition

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John Keats

Uncertainty

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Continuous excerpt; the leading ellipsis marks omitted text

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Rainer Maria Rilke

Embracing Uncertainty

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Short translated excerpt; ellipses mark omitted text.

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Emily Dickinson

Possibility

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Excerpt following R. W. Franklin’s reading edition, not a manuscript transcription

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