You find reasons to keep living
Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.
Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.
Often in the past he had wondered what it would be like to be subjected (soma-less and with nothing but his own inward resources to rely on) to some great trial, some pain, some persecution; he had even longed for affliction. As recently as a week ago, in the Director’s office, he had imagined himself courageously resisting, stoically accepting suffering without a word.
The body image is informed fundamentally from haptic and orienting experiences early in life. Our visual images are developed later on, and depend for their meaning on primal experiences that were acquired haptically.