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What does it mean?
Forget yourself and become as hard and unfeeling as stone.
In plain terms
Turn yourself to stone to stop feeling.
What can you take from it?
Hardening yourself avoids pain.

Where it applies

  • grief
  • hardship

Putting it to work

  • protect oneself emotionally

Questions to consider

  • When do you harden your heart?

Another view

Becoming stone also means losing life and connection.

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