Happy Samhain, everyone. Don’t forget to carve your turnips, to guide the dead on their journey.
As soon as I could collect my scattered senses, I found myself nearly suffocated, and groveling in utter darkness among a quantity of loose earth, which was also falling upon me heavily in every direction, threatening to bury me entirely.
Quotation from Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
It is permissible to enjoy moments of not understanding? Do we suffer when we understand too much?
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Quotation from Carl Sagan
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable. They never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Quotation from Marquis de Sade
People should come with warning labels. “Use at your own risk.”
But I’m a creep, I’m a wierdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don’t belong here.
She’s running out again.
She’s running.
She runs runs runs runs
Runs.
Lyric from Radiohead, Creep
A life without pain offers no opportunity for self-examination or spiritual fulfillment. Everything that is perceived to be worthwhile and good would become meaningless without suffering and resolution. Accept your pain, but don’t passively accept the pain of others. And remember: Pain is never cool when one person inflicts it on another.
Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Quotation from Kahlil Gibran
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Quotation from Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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“Love Conquers All” is written above the door. Omnia Vincit Amor. The phrase is taken from Virgil’s Eclogues. This comes from the belief that without Love, everything is meaningless. But is it possible to love pain? Would loving pain conquer it?
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
Quotation from Jim Morrison
Embrace of Pain (Starwars Wiki) “The device could induce so much pain that it was capable of turning even the most noble Jedi to the dark side of the Force.”
P.S. Happy Independence Day, America!