What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

– Gaston Bachelard

The enduring literature of diverse cultures is a repository of deep imaginative guidance. Poets, playwrights, novelists, and storytellers imaginatively evoke the most challenging dimensions of life in the unique ways that they are experienced and responded to within a specific culture.

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