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It is a grave injustice
to a child or adult
to insist that they
stop crying.
One can comfort a
person who is crying
which enables him
to relax and makes
further crying
unnecessary;
but to humiliate a
crying child is to
increase his pain,
and augment his
rigidity.
We stop other people
from crying because
we cannot stand the
sounds and movements
of their bodies.
It threatens our own
rigidity.
It induces similar feelings
in ourselves which we dare
not express and it evokes
a resonance in our own
bodies which we resist.
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