“Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.” TryingMindHumansMadeFeelingsProblemRealityMightPainSleepStupidFineRainNegativeTablesAddBusyReactionsKneesHuman MindKeep TryingBumpsPicnicsNegative Feelings Book:Awareness: Conversations with the Masters Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.” PainHurtRocksStupidSorrowDrawsListsQuittingShipsMutualHurt And Pain Author:Vladimir Mayakovsky
“I still am amazed that people would never buy a car if they were told it gets 75 miles to the gallon - they're absolutely clear on what's a scam. But when it comes to their health they will immediately fall for somebody telling them, "Take this pill and you'll live to be a hundred years old." There's something about medicine that allows us to fall for stupid sales pitches more easily.” PeopleIfsYearsStillsPainFallClearCarStupidHundredMedicineMilesTherapyInjuryAmazedPillsGallonsScamsSales Pitch Author:Dean Edell
“I am addicted to prescription pain medication.” PainStupidHatefulPrescriptionsMedication Author:Rush Limbaugh
“How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?” WorldShouldMeanPainEvilStupidMiseryFaultsInjusticeDareShould ICapricious Author:Stephen Fry
“What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?” PainFeltStupidAbsent Book:Heroic Enthusiasts Source: Heroic Enthusiasts