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Tip-Off #98 - Broken and Blessed

Tip-Off #98 - Broken and Blessed

"There is no remedy for love but to love more." - Thoreau

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Peter Paul Rubens - Head of Woman (1632) - sketch and study 7.48 x 6.7 in - permanently displayed at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Public domain.

Comparing suffering is like adding insult to injury, as if suffering were a competition. A broken leg can be as bad as a heart attack or news of cancer — just as our own suffering does not diminish …

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