Is it possible that the ideal of perfection is flawed from the root and contradicts human nature? We experience happiness, beauty and pleasure in a more complex way than theories of salvation and utopia often suggest. Pleasure and pain are not the opposites they might appear to be. Physical pain is often associated with sexual [...]
Also tagged art, beauty, pain, terror“There is only one inborn erroneous notion … that we exist in order to be happy … So long as we persist in this inborn error … the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are [...]
Also tagged dissapointmentHealth has often been attributed to happiness - or perhaps more accurately: disease ultimately causes unhappiness. The famous roman phrase, ‘healthy mind in a healthy body’ is accepted as one of life’s absolute truths.
There is probably no argument with the fact the physical pain, weakness or the threat of an imminent death cause suffering. But [...]