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When The Evening Of Life Cools
Soren writes that "That even the progress through life for the most honest contender is difficult" and fear/cowardliness "Gnaws asunder the chain of resolution." So, facing that life is, to one degree or another, difficult for everyone helps us make difficulties normative. And cope with them. When the evening comes, let us say that we continued to walk in the day of difficulties even though it might have been hard. Complaining about the difficulties does nothing to put us on the path of progress. Cope or Mope. Therapeutic culture can trap people in the pain of their past. Face it, cry if you…
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