The episode closes with a hauntingly beautiful reading of Rilke, a tribute to the great Joanna Macy, and a reminder: this dark night we’re in — culturally and personally — may just be the bell tower through which we learn to ring.

Perspective Shift:

1. Suffering doesn’t block awakening, it catalyzes it. Most people don’t begin their spiritual path because everything is fine. It’s suffering that cracks the surface of the self, but only when we turn toward it with open-heartedness and support does it become the doorway to transcendence. Trauma and revelation aren’t opposites—the

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