What Suffering Is

Life at home is harder if my life outside the home s terrible so the two things simply are more like, like, they kind of mirror each other somehow. That's sort of what suffering is. It's the person, the human person, kind of experiencing the boundary between self and other. And that boundary can be painful. What montaigne is saying is, if we have a certain mastery of this, not as a limit, but as a boundary, then it be a matter of real mutual strength. You know, my inner life and my outer life can really become one life, you know.