Few of the wise souls who have devoted years to contemplating the structure of the cosmos could tell us how to practise in circumstances like this. I want them to come and learn what I know, too, and what many other patient souls could share. I want them to experience the discipline of forever being pulled away from the interior, always feeling that the work of the mind and the body is just out of reach. They would have to live through the exhaustion and the frustration and the isolation, and choose to wholeheartedly give care over and over again, rather than to walk away. I want them to
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