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Ep 3 - Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)

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How to Love Others Is Difficult

Rilker says breakups confirm love as the most difficult task for each of us. He compares it to a drug withdrawal where you have to take your balls back and just use it as a period of growth. It's a chance to go back into solitude and reverse engineer what happened and learn from it, he writes. Rilker: "It is also good to love for love is difficult"

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