I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me. Sri Aurobindo
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I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me. The sentence above is a quote from Goethe, a German poet and scientist. The quote speaks to the idea of how we can learn to appreciate life when we suffer.

Often, when we feel pain or grief, we try to escape it by numbing our emotions and denying our feelings. We do this in an effort to keep ourselves from becoming overwhelmed by our emotions or by others who may inflict pain upon us. This quote is saying that we should embrace our feelings no matter what they are and that we should give in to them rather than try to suppress them.

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