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mouse: Until someone identified with my pain, confusion, I felt "dead"!

I'm glad to know you're feeling a bit better today, mouse and glad to hear that BeyondRedemption's words helped you feel less alone.

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I think I've said this before, I'll say it again, that compassion or the sense of shared humanity, of our kinship with each other, this is what heals. This is what heals the desperation we can feel, the darkness we can feel and the chain reaction of aggression, or chain reaction of misery that gets triggered off by just sometimes a slight shift in the energy and we feel uneasy, or agitated, or unhappy in some way, and then that spirals into a chain reaction of ... pain.

-- Tonglen: Pema Chodron

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