On “yes” moments, the Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjold wrote this in “Markings“:

I don’t know Who–or what–put the question. I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone–or Something–and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

Have you had a yes moment?

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