There's a conversation in Atlas Shrugged book, where John Galt says to Dagny Taggart " Dagny, it's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence. Don't feel sorry for me. It was gone right then." That has been the case with me for quite a number of times. While I was reading this book today and came across this dialogue it was like echoing what I have been thinking. True. Buddha says that the first step to free a soul from suffering is in accepting the full existence of suffering, and then think of its solution. Unfortunately the society perceives such attitude as our carelessness, that the problem is not our priority, that we are not serious about it. Carrying a sulky face shows how much the problem has impacted you, vs being logical and normal about it means you just...
There is an inner self to everyone. You might speak, speak a lot; but yet there would be so many things unsaid, so many thoughts not shared, so many emotions hidden; well, here I am - where my silence speaks...