Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain
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Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain
We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand
outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.
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