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[To] master our sorrows, we must know how to be fully immersed in emotion, yet not ruled by it

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Healing through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair
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Miriam Greenspan
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Jun 8, 2022 2:27 AM
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The Baal Shem Tov, a legendary eighteenth-century Jewish mystic, taught that to master our sorrows, we must know how to be fully immersed in emotion, yet not ruled by it. I call this process the alchemy of the dark emotions: knowing how to stay connected to the energy of painful emotions, to attend to and befriend it, to surrender to it, mindfully, without being overwhelmed. This is how we listen to the language of the heart. ~ Miriam Greenspan