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Pain, Wisdom and Mercy

Honestly with Bari Weiss

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Is There a Better Way to Help People?

I don't think there's anything i could have learned that, you know, it would have prepared me for what constant pain constantly circling pain feels like. There are just huge limits to what you can do to help some one in these kind of situations. But sometimes just sort of being present in their life in some way, maybe just to absorb some of the toxic emotions that they'd otherwise be dumping on, let's say, their wife. Not not that i would ever have done that, of course, right? That can be helpful too. And then to the harder question. I mean, when it comes to physical suffering, there're certain ways in which nothing can prepare you for it

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