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It’s Okay to Feel Okay Even When There’s Pain and Suffering in the World

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Finding peace when so many people are suffering – Listener email about desperately wanting to save a relationship – inner emotion expressed outwardly through voice and movement
Finding peace when so many people are suffering – Listener email about desperately wanting to save a relationship – inner emotion expressed outwardly through voice and movement
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Finding peace when so many people are suffering – Listener email about desperately wanting to save a relationship – inner emotion expressed outwardly through voice and movement
December 13, 2015
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It’s amazing the little things we get upset about. Any one of us could be standing in line at the grocery store and it could be moving along fine. Then, the person ahead of you pulls out all their coupons and delays our progress.

Then, they pull out an out-of-state check which prompts the cashier to call the manager over to verify it.

And while this is happening, we’re getting less and less patient. Then we might think to ourselves, “How much longer is this going to take?”

We might get angry or even resentful towards them or even ourselves for getting into the wrong line in the first place.

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