[Unedited] Pauline Boss with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Only Way to Live Ambiguous Loss Is to Hold Two Opposite Ideas in Your Mind
The only way to live ambiguous loss is to hold two opposing ideas in your mind at the same time. A with a physically missing, people might say, ah, he's gone. Or he may be coming back, but maybe not. Those kinds of thinking a are common and it is the only way that people can lower the stress of living with ambiguity. And children learn it rapidly, and even adults learn it, not it doesn't take too long. However, we like a finite answers: You're either dead or here alive....
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