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=The Effects of Pain and Life= (By Sam)(ael) (Return to Teachings)

To quote an old Gray saying:

"Pain is life, it is living, and it is everything you live for."

I am sure you can dissect that saying a thousand ways and come back for more and deeper understandings as I have, but let us for now focus on a simple view presented: Pain is inseperably connected to life and living.

Now, usually you can connect two philosophical points only by finding that they are one thing feeding itself in a loop. One feeds into another which feeds into the first. That is how most philosophical connections work.

Now think about that pearl of insinuated wisdom. Pain creates life, Life creates pain. It means that when you add to one, both become stronger. Thus a 'more full' life is a more painful one, and more pain leads to more fullness in life.

Now this theory may just sound like a slightly resounding idea. Maybe it makes an odd kind of sense to you, but still seems alien.

I argue that in order to live a more full life. To do more, Do better, accomplish and experience more, you must except the inevitable pains. Exhaustion when you are trying to accomplish, accidents that come with new experiences, and growing pains when even your own idea of who you are stops fitting for a time.

On the opposite side, pain is when we are uncomfortable. It requires you to be out of your comfort Zone and implies that in order to experience pain you must put yourself or find yourself in a situation you are not used to. Thus I argue that to feel pain is to begin a new experience, or opportunity, from which experience may arise. In addition, spiritually strong people tend to suffer less in the same conditions as their weaker counterparts. I argue that in order to feel pain you must also have the opportunity to rise above it and grow.

Thus by feeling pain you live. Pain forces evolution and growth thus life. And life cannot be lived without the appearance of pain.