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“In other words, walking through the dark forest, you might eventually look up through the trees, see that the sky above is the same as the sky over the sunny pasture, that it is one canopy of light spread over your whole life’s landscape. Grief and joy are in the same life, but it’s only in the forest where you notice the shafts of sunlight spilling through.”

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Book:Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
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Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

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