“You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.” InspirationalDifferentPainDiesKnowingIgnoranceBuddhismSafeSecureNot KnowingOblivionIncarnationShuffle Author:Frederick Lenz
“At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face the fact that we don’t know, really, where we are, how we got here, how long the pain will last, or how to move past it. That uncertainty may be the most painful part of not knowing a God: no one is there to reassure us that a God will take the pain and confusion away. We simply don’t know. And we have no way to numb ourselves or to forget the condition we’re in.” KnowsWayMayLongFactsSeemsPainLastsPastFacesMovingLossForgetKnowingConditionsSorrowComfortDespairHarderPainfulGods WillConfusionUncertaintyTemporaryNot KnowingBehaviourNumbHis Loss Author:Marya Hornbacher
“He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship.” IfsBelieveHeartPainTogetherAnswersKnowingLoversMirrorsNot Knowing Author:Mary Renault
“Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism, feelings, and life in general) took me even further, so that I ultimately found serenity.” FeelingsPainFoundKnowingEmotionalBehaviorEatingIntenseDisorderSerenityNot KnowingMaking ChangesPerfectionismTurmoilEating DisorderRecoveringEmotional TurmoilIntense Pain Book:Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life Source: Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life