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When daily exposure to historical trauma creates despair

I work at a museum and spend all day explaining historical atrocities to children and I go home and cannot stop thinking about human cruelty and whether we have learned anything at all.

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Prolonged focus on human suffering without balancing awareness can create identification with darkness that obscures inherent wholeness.

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