We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)

Stephen Levine
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Aversion to the unpleasant. This is the key to understanding why people are so often willing to do things that are not in their best interests. They are motivated more by aversion to the painful than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. They are constantly attempting to escape their life, to avoid rather than enter their pain they, and they wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive.

Source: A Year To Live: How To Live This Year As If It Were Your Last

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