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Tag: Sadness

Why You Must Feel Sorrow to Experience Joy

"Your capacity to feel the one affects your capacity to experience the other. The two are connected. A soul deadened to the pain of the world and to your own life is numb to the joy available to you as well."

On Fundamental Sadness and the Deeper Magic

"I don’t think we need less lament, I think we need more lament, more tears."