“You must understand the whole of life, not just one part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, why you must sing, dance and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
—Krishnamurti
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it’s the stuff that’s about what it feels like to live. Instead of being a relief from what it feels like to live.
David Lipsky • Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
It is inevitably true that life is suffering. But the reverse is also true: suffering is life. It is in the midst of suffering that we get to exercise so many of the virtues that make us human. Our sense of courage, justice, compassion, wisdom; all these things manifest and operate in and because of the reality of suffering. All those aspects of
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the avoidance of pain. That’s what it is to be human—the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.