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Humble, The Poet on Being Free of Passion but Full of Love

The Daily Stoic

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What Does It Transmit Light Creates Its Own Darkness?

I think he's sort of lamenting it as a tragedy, you know, as the tragic fate of human beings. He says what does it transmit light creates its own darkness? That's beautiful. And this idea that if you are not transmitting light, you're creating your own darkness. So it's almost like either you make things better or you make things worse. I think in terms of if we want to interpret in terms of light, either you're putting love out there or you're closing yourself off to love and kind of sentencing yourself to a prison of darkness.

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