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"This very struggle to achieve, to become something, is the cause of sorrow."
On Love and Loneliness, p.103 |
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"...we never face the fact of sorrow; we are always trying to rationalize it, explain it away; or
we cling to a dogma, a pattern of belief which satisfies us, gives us momentary comfort. Some take
a drug, others turn to drink, or to prayer - anything to lessen the intensity, the agony of sorrow.
Sorrow, and the everlasting attempt to escape from sorrow, is the lot of each one of us.
...whether we go to church and worship the symbol of sorrow, or try to rationalize sorrow away, of forget our sorrow by taking a drink, it is all the same: We are escaping from the fact that we suffer...Is it possible to bring all sorrow to an end? ...To end sorrow is to face the fact of one's loneliness, one's attachment, one's petty little demand for fame, one's hunger to be loved; it is to be free of self-concern and the puerility of self-pity." On Love and Loneliness, p.113-115 |
