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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #69: We Are All Savages Inside

But the people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.

I don’t think your path to wholeness is walking backward on the trail.

But compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.

Addiction is a tunnel that wakes you up in the middle of the night. Everything else happens out here in the light.

Art isn’t anecdote. It’s the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives.

Be brave enough to break your own heart.

Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning.

Forget the man. Forget the money. It’s your own sweet self with whom you must rendezvous.

Limits are not punishments, but rather lucid and respectful expressions of our needs and desires and capabilities.

We don’t reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop. We start at the bottom and climb up. Blood is involved.

Boundaries teach people how to treat you and they teach you how to respect yourself.

Your letter is a litany of contradictions, much to my relief. It tells me there is a space between what’s perceived and what’s possible.