Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty that remains far beyond yours, where otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words. I love this quote in terms of therapists, and I make a joke all the time. And I say, I'm two steps ahead of my clients on a good day. Meaning that when someone comes into my office, if I haven't had some experience with what they're experiencing, I actually would refer them out. Because I don't command that subject.
I want to manage the subjects within my my breadth of experience. So it's a such a poignant and beautiful way that Rocha expresses the fact that you know, you couldn't write about these things and you couldn't enter acted help other people if you didn't have your own shadow saw and that's why I love this quote.