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01/26/2004: "I Am A Dry Tree"
What can you do? Sometimes it's not as easy as pulling the thorn out of the lion's paw; not that that was easy but at least there was a plain way to end the suffering. But we know in our hearts that suffering is wrong, it's unnatural, and it is therefore right, however possible, to cut off the source of this wrongness. The mystery is how to do it. And it seems shameful, somehow, to see another's suffering and admit one's impotence in the face of it, that it comes to seem more discreet to look away. But that's a failure of faith: the suffering of one is the concern of all, each wound can be tenderly cared for, and everyhting broken can be made whole. After the forest is scorched, the seeds will yet sprout. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress.
