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October 13 - October 17, 2025
speeds may be available to almost everyone, people frequently have no one to talk to or share their burdens with. Despite all the ways of being connected to the modern world, in the depths of ourselves we feel more isolated and alienated than ever before.
that we are all in this together. We lose the sense that each person is wounded by life and therefore naturally deserving of sympathy and respect.
It is in the depths of the human soul, where mystery resides, that history can be continually remade.
The idea behind many suicidal thoughts is not the need to leave this world behind as much as the need to leave behind certain ways we have been living in it.
Yet, a modern person can more easily fail to understand that a part of them needs to die in order that they might find a greater sense of life. In confusing the part with the whole, people can take their lives by mistake.
people confuse simple connection with the crucial need to be truly seen and genuinely heard.
What the soul longs for — and rightfully expects — is not simply to be recognized, but to receive confirmation of one’s genuine self; not an automatic response from a device, but acceptance as a unique and valuable person.
