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Why understanding wisdom doesn't eliminate wanting

I've been studying Buddhism for years and understand intellectually that attachment causes suffering, but I still desperately want my estranged daughter to call me and I feel like a spiritual failure.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The gap between intellectual comprehension and embodied realization reveals the difference between knowing about truth and living it.

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