i wonder if there is a relationship between religious belief and the experience of itisvemus ya? This actually wasn't a place that i expected to go, particularly when i first started exploring this. All my life i've been on the agnostic side and really remain there. There's one amazing poem looking around, cause i feel like i probably have it printed out somewhere around me. Its is this longing you express is the return message, the grief you cry out from, draws you toward union. Your pure sadness that wants help is the secret cup. You nont love or divinity, or whatever expression we want to give to it. Ye, ye.
Susan Cain shot to fame in 2012 with her international bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, in which she urged society to cultivate space for the undervalued introverts among us. Now she's back with another book asking us to reassess how we think about self expression: Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole. The book argues that by embracing the bittersweet at the heart of life – the sense that joy and sorrow are always paired – we can gain a heightened appreciation of the wonder and beauty of our own personal experience and throughout wider culture too. Our host for the discussion is writer, academic and broadcaster, Shahidha Bari.
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