You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
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Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
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