Bitter sweetness is a state in which you can truly inhabit the idea that life is always simultaneously joy and sorrow, light and dark. It's probably the heart of it all to me. I believe that this sense of longing for that which is most perfect, beautiful, true am you know, love like the pure essence of love, that longing is, it's the core part of the human soul. And we don't have a language for talking about that, i think, because we have understood this longing only within the realm of religion. We're longing for home. As the religious have always said, you know, i'm a poor, wayfaring stranger. I want to go