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How Can We Inspire Healing in Souls Habituated to Suffering

Inviting people to healing

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O. Alan Noble
Oct 15, 2025
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A few days ago I shared the following note quoting Albert Camus on the way people can fall in love with their own suffering, as I put it in On Getting Out of Bed:

And I received this thoughtful reply from

Kai O'Connor
:

This seems like a good question. If there is a genuine tendency in humans to become addicted to, in love with,…

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