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.
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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.
Bubbles
Pleasure is to contentment as bubbles are to water, as froth to the sea.
