Sooner or later everyone is confronted with the question: why do we suffer? Is all the suffering in the world really necessary? Do we ultimately gain anything worthwhile from it?
Most religious traditions and philosophical treatments of the subject concern themselves with reducing suffering. The problem is that in the same breath, [...]

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits
in the presence of fate is strength [...]

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