S05 · Pain and Trauma
Emotional suffering and anguish
Sustained emotional pain, heartache or inner torment.
Cues
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“Self-actualizing does not mean a transcendence of all human problems. Conflict, anxiety, frustration, sadness, hurt, and guilt can all be found in healthy human beings.”
“For sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“He who has a why can bear almost any how.”
“In the darkness of the unconscious a treasure lies hidden, the ... “treasure hard to attain” ... the fight against the paralyzing grip of the unconscious calls forth man’s creative powers ... it needs heroic courage to do battle with these forces and to wrest from them the treasure hard to attain. Whoever succeeds in this has triumphed indeed.”
“From such abysses [of suffering] one returns newborn, having shed one’s skin ... with a more delicate taste for joy, with a tenderer tongue for all good things, with merrier senses ... more childlike and yet a hundred times subtler than one has ever been before.”
“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suffering itself, was the curse that lay over mankind so far.”
“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, he is my creature, and [in spite of] all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me.”
Feynman's continuing-bond letter to Arline
Sixteen months after his wife Arline died, pragmatic physicist Richard Feynman overcame his belief that there was no sense in writing and wrote her a tender love letter, affirming his enduring love, shared projects and grief.