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Love & Romance
Living & Coexisting by Courage, Generosity & Wisdom
Finn Janning says empathy and compassion are necessary for our thriving and even our survival.
“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday. I can’t be sure.” These are the opening lines from Albert Camus’ novel The Stranger (1942). If these words seem gruesome, it is because the reader has an expectation that a ‘normal’ person simply has to know when his or her mother died.
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