Loved this. Sweet, simple, and inspirational. - Andrea Duran - Medium

James then sat beside this troubled young man and said, “The pain of life is pure salt, no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same. But the amount we taste that pain depends on the container we put it into. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a glass. Become a lake.”

Glass, Lake, Salt — Become a Lake

Ed Benjamin

Jun 3, 2022

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Loved this. Sweet, simple, and inspirational.

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