“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is…The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life as it unfolds.”
-Dan Millman; The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
The next time you complain about how much you hate your life or your job or waking up or going to the gym…you should think about being stuck in a mine for 69 days. For more on this idea check out Victor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning.”
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