Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. You are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.
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“Love is nothing more than pain and misery. Dying almost seemed like the lesser evil of the two.”
I wanted the peace of a peaceful life, a quiet mind and the security of guaranteed happiness. But everything is built from pain.
Hey Jude
And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain,
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders.
For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder.
Na na na nananana, nannana, hey Jude...
I try so hard to cry these days. After all those years with constant pain , I became numb and paralyzed. I am exhausted and can’t even shed a tear anymore. And I am missing it.
A moment's pain can be a lifetime's gain.
Sayfa 18
"What is meditation? What is leaving one's body? What is fasting? What is holding one's breath? It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice-wine or fermented coconut-milk. Then he won't feel his self any more, ther he won't feel the pains of life any more, then he finds a short numbing of the senses. When he falls asleep over his bowl of rice-wine, he'll find the same what Siddhartha and Govinda find when they escape their bodies through
long exercises, staying in the non-self. This is how it is.
Düşündü. İngilizce'deki "pain" kelimesiyle, Fransızca'daki "pain" kelimesini düşündü. Biri "acı", diğeri "ekmek" demekti. Barbaros bunu sıradan bir tesadüf olarak değerlendirmeyecek kadar sarhoş ve yalnızdı. Acı, insanın hayat tarlasında biçtiği buğdaylardan pişirdiği ekmekti. Dolayısıyla sabah kahvaltısı kadar kaçınılmazdı.
Sayfa 88
A capacity to feel joy must be balanced by a capacity to know pain
Our world is born of, and exists because of, duality. This is a fundament of our natural world, but it's also important to see in our own lives. The truth is that the greater capacity you have for darkness is as much contrast through which you can see light. The yin/yang of our emotional selves is always in balance; it truly just depends on what perspective we choose to view things through-both are equally available to us, the choice is always, ultimately, ours.
Sayfa 301
"In silence they faced each other in the gray light through the window, and he thought: No kiss, no embrace, could bring two people any closer than we are right now. The most intimate emotion two people can share is neither love nor desire but pain."
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"Sessizlik içinde, pencereden gelen gri ışıkta birbirlerine baktılar ve o düşündü: Hiçbir öpücük, hiçbir kucaklaşma iki insanı şu anda olduğumuzdan daha fazla yakınlaştıramaz. İki insanın paylaşabileceği en mahrem duygu aşk ya da arzu değil, acıydı."
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