Has exile helped you?
Have you found strength in it?
Oh yes! Without a doubt,
I can try to tell you why.
When, at some point in our lives,
we meet a real tragedy -
which could happen to any one of us -
we can react in two ways.
Obviously we can lose hope,
let ourselves slip into discouragement,
into alcohol, drugs, unending sadness.
Or else we can wake ourselves up;
discover in ourselves an energy
that was hidden there,
and act with more clarity, more force.
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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