Sorrow’s Dangers

[Please note: I'm still groping about trying to understand.]
There are many dangers associated with sorrow: despair, hopelessness, bitterness. But there are two in particular which are pernicious: self-pity and dejection.
Self-pity is obvious. It is the myopia into which genuine sorrow can morph after prolonged attention to the continuing pain. This is not [...]

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On the Faith and Its Relation to Culture

From Ivan Kireyevsky’s On the Nature of European Culture and on Its Relationship to Russian Culture:
Apart from ethnic differences, three historical circumstances gave the entire development of culture in the West its distinct character: the special form through which Christianity reached it; the peculiar aspect in which it inherited the civilisation of the ancient world; [...]

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