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Tip-Off #32 - Confident Despair

Tip-Off #32 - Confident Despair

"... the fire and the rose are one." - T.S. Eliot

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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of understanding. Reconciliation is not forgiveness but acceptance of responsibility. Love is not fusion but unity amid difference: “the pillars of the temple stand apart.”

While true, this is not easy. It is conventional at weddings for the couple to bring lit candles forward to light a larger unity …

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