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Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

-Samuel Johnson

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Tears Are Often To Be Found Where

Samuel Johnson

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

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Recently, one friend asked me, "how can i force myself to smile when i am filled with sorrow? it isn't natural." i told her she must be able to smile to her sorrow, because we are more than our sorrow. a human being is like a television set with millions of channels. if we turn the buddha on, we are the buddha. if we turn sorrow on then we are sorrow. if we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. we can not let just one channel dominate us. we have the seed of everything in us, and we have to seize the situation in our hand, to recover our own sovereignty.

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

Then i noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. have you ever seen the shadows of tears, mr. wind-up bird? they’re nothing like ordinary shadows. nothing at all. they come here from some other, distant world, especially for our hearts. or maybe not. it struck me then that the tears my shadow was shedding might be the real thing, and the tears that i was shedding were just shadows. you don’t get it, i’m sure, mr. wind-up bird. when a naked seventeen-year-old girl is shedding tears in the moonlight, anything can happen. it’s true.

Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. it is already there. whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for him or her. can you tell me that you cannot smile? think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. please don't tell me that a smile and your sorrow just don't go together. it's your sorrow, but what about your baby? it's not his sorrow, its not her sorrow.

The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. they exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. when people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. and after the fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

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