Could Your Pain Be the Pupa of Paradise?

Destructive forces can be the path to fulfillment.

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Life hurts.

And pain is awful. There never was a philosopher who could endure toothache. Epicurus, who understood in the 3rd century BC that matter is composed of atoms, taught the point of all rational actions is to attain pleasure. Aristotle claimed that happiness is the…