stoicism: definition of stoicism in Oxford dictionary (American English) (US)
I've never been able to master stoicism, though I've managed to restrain my outward emotional expression. I consider that is the balance that I've been able to come to.
It's what I can do.
Perhaps the school of thought of negative comparison, X is worse off than Y, which leaves us stuck with our emotions plus guilt, doesn't work for me. It's a cruelty to inflict upon us.
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Traveling west back toward Eden (interestingly the wise men in the Gospel account of Jesus' birth came from the East), has been full of confrontation with
the trials and tribulations of living outside the Garden.
She is an artist without doubt disappointed that paradise was not as close in 1969 as she and so many others hoped it was. Her work is now filled with the reality of humanity's failure to achieve the prophetic dream of her song, but never without the hope that that day will yet come.
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