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Tag: suffering

How to Be with Each Other’s Suffering: Elie Wiesel on the Antidote to Our Paralysis in the Face of World-Overwhelm

There is a phenomenon in forests known as inosculation — the fusing together of separate trees into a single organism after their branches or roots have been entwined for a long time.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings Leave a comment January 24, 2023 1 Minute

The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing

Nothing kidnaps our capacity for presence more cruelly than longing. And yet longing is also the most powerful creative force we know: Out of our longing for meaning came all of art; out of our longing for truth all of science; out of our longing for love the very fact of life.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings September 11, 2022 1 Minute

How to Bear Your Suffering: The Young Poet Anne Reeve Aldrich’s Extraordinary Letter to Emily Dickinson

“What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on,” Marcus Aurelius wrote in his Stoic strategy for turning suffering into strength.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings August 14, 2022 1 Minute

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