Suffering in Silence

One thing you learn to appreciate is the fact of pain in life. I had a very interesting conversation with a priest who's a friend of mine, and was a teacher when i was at university. And he said to me, it's a very narrow minded idea that comes out of religion, that all suffering has a purpose. Suffering is just suffering. But suffering shouldn't be glorified. That being said, i think that suffering also gives one it gives one breath em You know, emotion and self operate, by en large, in a fairly narrow range. Once you've been all the way to one extreme, you're aware of the capacity to go all the way to the other...