Suffering is bullsh*t
When pain and suffering are thought of as universal, and not personal, they can no longer prove that you are uniquely deserving of them. In other words, you come to realize that you're not and you never have been uniquely terrible or wonderful. Instead, you're a “a garden variety human” just like “a garden variety cabbage.”
Carolyn Elliott • Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power (A method for getting what you want by getting off on what you don't)
And on the heels of that recognition comes the willingness to engage with and unwind the suffering rather than be its prisoner. The exquisite paradox of this engagement is that when the suffering is fully allowed, it dissolves. Weight loss occurs easily, naturally. And without the self-inflicted pain and the stories about what is wrong, what’s left
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