“When you keep focusing on the specific circumstances of your pain, you easily become angry, resentful, and even vindictive….But real healing comes from realizing that your own particular pain is a share of humanity’s pain….Every time you can shift your attention away from the external situation that caused your pain and focus on the pain of humanity in which you participate, your suffering becomes easier to bear.” The knowledge that we acquire through suffering can be articulated, but it can’t really be understood by someone who did not endure the path it took to get there. I will say I did
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