our culture wants to turn mysteries into problems to be solved or breakdowns to be fixed, because maintaining the illusion that we can "straighten things out" makes us feel powerful. Yet mysteries never yield to solutions or fixes--and when we pretend that they do, life not only becomes more banal but more hopeless, because the fixes never works. - Parker J. Palmer

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Parker J. Palmer: "our culture wants to turn mysteries into problems to be solved or breakdowns to be fixed, because maintaining the illusion that we can "straighten things out" makes us feel powerful. Yet mysteries never yield to solutions or fixes--and when we pretend that they do, life not only becomes more banal but more hopeless, because the fixes never works."

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Banal	Because	Becomes	Breakdowns
Culture	Feel	Fixed	Fixes
Fixesand	Hopeless	Illusion	Into
Life	Maintaining	Makes	Mysteries
Powerful	Pretend	Problems	Solutions
Solved	Straighten	Things	Turn
Wants	Works	Yield

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