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‘Look closer (..) and you’ll see the true interconnection of love and loss. “You can’t really experience connection if you don’t also have a sense of separation,” says Douglas Brooks, a scholar of Hinduism and professor of religion at the University of Rochester. ”Heartbreak is part of the human condition – if it comes off the table, so does love itself. Vulnerability is what makes life worth living; without it we’d lack meaning and purpose.”

‘Since you can’t transcend heartache, you should embrace it. “We were all created out of love, but born into separation the moment the cord was cut,” he says. “That’s what it is to be human. Heartbreak is not the end of love. It’s the beginning.”‘