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Bittersweet: Finding Purpose in Sorrow, with Susan Cain
Intelligence Squared
The Inconsolable Longing For, We Know Not What
The book is about the idea that all beings come into this world with a kind of ore like prime to feel a longing for a more perfect and beautiful world. We see the manifestations of this in so many different ways, from religious traditions to secular ones. In our culture, we are taught to think of longing as a kind of dangerous state that we might be wallowing in. But what all these traditions show us is that longing is actually the state that catapults us forward.
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