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Bittersweet: Finding Purpose in Sorrow, with Susan Cain
Intelligence Squared
Is Bitter Sweetness a Strategy?
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Bitter sweetness is a way of connecting with the fact that humans, since time immemorial, have been experiencing life with all its complexity. And we're not alone in it, you know. We're connected to all the other humans who have ways done that. There's this one m parable that comes from the cabala that i find really useful also for trying to make sense of these complexities. The idea is that all of ollif creation was originally an intact and divine vessel that then shattered. So what we can each do is bend down and pick those shards of divinity or light up whenever we see them. I find that an incredibly useful way of making sense of how
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