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Alain de Botton and the complexity of modern day love

Life Examined

CHAPTER

Is There a Time When We Can't Move Through Something?

I wonder though, for some, when self-reflection or the constant retrieval of how we define trauma becomes almost unhelpful. This may come a time when we need to appreciate our smallness and our insignificance in something bigger and more important than ourselves. For many of us, me included, traditional religion is now no longer something we can believe in. It's at that moment that we can feel agreeably reduced in our own imaginations. And we can be as it were nothing within a sphere, which is so much more important than us.

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