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On Pain

A Koan

Tom White
May 30, 2023
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart. —Socrates

Above: Darkness is the absence of light. Death, the absence of pain. Neither is good.


To be young is to think your pain is unique.

To be old is to know it is universal.

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Tom

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