The hard part isn’t knowing deep or subtle truths for yourself — we all do that — but figuring out how to share them. And before you can do that, you have to experience why you’d even want to or need to share what’s difficult or impossible to say.

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First, I discovered that parables can be interpreted from many different angles, some of which have meanings beyond what I’d been able to imagine. Then I started noticing the profundity of cliches and their compact elegance. And now I wonder if many banal and goofy everyday expression might not have more to them than I’d suspected.

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