Suffering is not a state we want to wallow in unnecessarily. Chronic suffering is pathological and will wreak havoc on our mind. Nita was one who experienced suffering of this magnitude, and he affirmed that it too has great value. His suffering helped him attain greatness as a philosopher. And his suffering allowed him to reach, in his words, heights of the soul.
“The discipline of suffering, of great suffering – do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far?” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Suffering is inevitable. It is an essential component of the human condition, and the sources of suffering are many. Some have gone as far […]
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