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Pico Iyer and Elizabeth Gilbert – The Future of Hope 3

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Suffering, Is It All Part of the Great Web of Things?

Sileka juad, a friend of Liz's who lost her youth to lucemia, has written about how platitudes can be so hurtful. She says that when we do suffer and we come through it, oftentimes we can't help but see where there was something in that suffering that had to happen. Wouts: "Sometimes suffering is actually part of the wonder. The tool of suffering and what it can turn you into"

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