Time and anxiety

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From Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez, in a description of Pingok Island off the north coast of Alaska:

If the mind releases its fiduciary grip on time, does not dole it out in a fretful way like a valued commodity but regards it as undifferentiated, like the flatness of the landscape, it is possible to transcend distance—to travel very far without anxiety, to not be defeated by the great reach of the land.