This month's episode of Samsara Audio brings Javier Rivera into our studio for a conversation on the necessity of the negative, the discomforts of compassion, and the abyssal act of forgiveness.

Javier Rivera is a writer on Substack, a veteran, and a student of religion at the University of Arizona. He has a forthcoming book called Ruptures releasing near the end of the year.

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