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Old 10-12-2008, 11:42 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by DigitalMethod View Post


Yet how is it ever fixed when one never learns the problem.

You don't always need to know what causes an emotional problem in order to fix it, if that helps.

As blanclait mentions, it can become a habit, this pining thing. Suppose you could call it existential grief.

"It is the blight man was born for
It is (self) that you mourn for."

Gerard Manly Hopkins. "To Margaret, Spring and Fall."

I am susceptible to this and take some effort to avoid in engaging it for any length of time.
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