There’s this strange purity-fixated approach to healing. A lot of modern self-help tries to eradicate suffering, undo “past behavioral patterns”, and dissolve the ego for the sake of disconnecting the self from trauma. I don’t think the blank-slate approach is that helpful…it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
How can suffering be integrated and understood instead of sanitized away from every surface of the human experience? Struggling is what make us human, what makes us grow (that’s the significance of the story of the Fall of Man/Exile from Paradise).
I find that people with the most well-earned wisdom (as opposed to pithy posers who are good with words) are those with incredible depth developed from past sufferings.
Freud once said, “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Freud once said, “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
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