It is said that any person who is an adherent of the Chinese goddess of compassion, Kuan Yin, is willing to keep the cries of the world alive. The sadness of broken places pervades the Earth. Those who are willing to face those places, to offer them love and attention, to make wild, spontaneous acts of beauty for them are of this lineage.
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