Bind it on your arm

The code: Do not pursue pleasure. Do not avoid pain. Welcome what comes.

Hauled from slumber

Pleasure confirms the status quo, swaddles our habits and histories, leaves us satiated and soporific. Pain hauls us from our slumbers, slaps us into consciousness, indelicately indicates that it’s time for a change.

More amore

Doctors cited organ failure but the real COD was an excess of pleasure.

Pain

Pain is not for running from. Where else do we learn acceptance, non-resistance and courage? How else do we cultivate endurance? From pain issues the profundo note of a deep and sober joy.

Please, God

Yes, Life gives us what we need. But there’s a pre-condition to be met: We have to stop asking for what we want.