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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

—Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown (1973)
Category: PhilosophyMood: ReflectiveTags: #sensitivity #pain #pleasure #wholeness
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Category: ResilienceMood: ReflectiveTags: #consciousness #pain #growth #rebirth
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

—Carl Jung, Man and His Symbols (1964)
Category: PhilosophyMood: ReflectiveTags: #consciousness #pain #awakening #truth
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Tragic optimism means that one is, and remains, optimistic in spite of the 'tragic triad': pain, guilt, and death.

—Viktor Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything (1946)
Category: PsychologyMood: BoldTags: #tragic-optimism #pain #guilt #death
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

—Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (On Pain)
Category: Resilience & PerseveranceMood: MelancholicTags: #kahlil-gibran #pain #growth #understanding #transformation
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Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

—Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (On Joy and Sorrow)
Category: Resilience & PerseveranceMood: PhilosophicalTags: #kahlil-gibran #crucible #refinement #pain #potter
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

—Haruki Murakami, Haruki Murakami's Essays & Philosophical Writings
Category: ResilienceMood: PhilosophicalTags: #mindset #pain #acceptance #endurance
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The cure for pain is in the pain.

—Rumi, Fihi Ma Fihi (Discourses of Rumi)
Category: ResilienceMood: ReflectiveTags: #healing #pain #growth #surrender
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