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Podcast: Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
Episode: Turning Suffering Into Tears of Joy | Happiness Podcast
Description: Listen to episode 1064 of the Inspirational Living podcast: How to Overcome Self-Pity. Adapted from Health Through Will Power by Dr. James J. Walsh.Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Aristotle declared that tragedy purges life, that is, that only through the lens of death and misfortune can one see life free from the dross of the sordid and merely material to which it is attached. His meaning was that tragedy lifts us above the selfishness of mere individualism. And by showing us the misfortunes of others, it prepares us to struggle against whatever misfortunes might come, as they almost inevitably...