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The original religious concept of fate is closely related to two questions whose answers can lead to hope, despair, or fatalistic resignation. Those two questions are: “What things are unchangeable; what must one learn to bear?” and “What can a person influence, correct, or treat?”
Even though everyone is fated to die, don’t put your head in the mouth of the lion.
—Saadi (Persian poet)
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Peseschkian, N. (1986). The Family as Fate. In: Positive Family Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70680-6_13
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