A workable and effective way ...

A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else\'s problems.  It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else\'s-better than you can handle your own alone.  That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.
A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.

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