“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
Gibran's chapter on joy and sorrow argues that the two are inseparable — that the capacity for one is enlarged by the experience of the other. For a father navigating grief, loss, or difficulty, this is not consolation that erases the pain; it is a reframe that honors it.
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