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Why understanding Taoist philosophy doesn't heal emotional pain

I've read the Tao Te Ching fifty times and I understand it intellectually but when my husband left me last month I still feel like I'm drowning and none of the beautiful words help.

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Intellectual comprehension of truth cannot substitute for the lived embodiment of wisdom through suffering.

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