“The world will remain as brutal as our level of desensitization to its brutality.”
Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher
“One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.”
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Weep, and you weep alone.
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But has trouble enough of its own.
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Of the laughing Sea;
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Of the glittered wave
Of the sun-gleam's dart
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Thy heart of stone!
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