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Have you ever felt your destiny unfolding, beloved? Have you experienced the intensity of the hunt, the fixation of attention that only fate can explain? Have you ever told yourself your feelings wereexcessive, but known that something huge and pivotally important was carrying you along like a riptide? You can fight that current all you want; you know it will still have its way with you. Or you cantry swimming along with it, and grow amazed by your own power__ntil you pause and realize that you aren__ moving but being moved. You__e not in control, not at all, and that__ what makes the feeling soexquisitely exciting.
Martha N. Beck Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening
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Have you ever felt your destiny unfolding, beloved? Have you experienced the intensity of the hunt, the fixation of attention that only fate can explain? Have you ever told yourself your feelings wereexcessive, but known that something huge and pivotally important was carrying you along like a riptide? You can fight that current all you want; you know it will still have its way with you. Or you cantry swimming along with it, and grow amazed by your own power__ntil you pause and realize that you aren__ moving but being moved. You__e not in control, not at all, and that__ what makes the feeling soexquisitely exciting.

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