In daily actions difficulties are overcome, small objectives are achieved, little failures reaped.

Whether pleasant or unpleasant, these acts accompany daily life like scaffolding accompanies a great building; it is not the structure itself, but it is necessary if it is to be built. It does not matter what material this scaffolding is made of, as long as it is suitable for its purpose.

Hunger, thirst, sickness, and all bodily injury are pain... ...

Fear, frustration, despair, and all mental hurt are suffering.



Physical pain recedes in the measure that society and science advance. Mental suffering recedes in the measure that faith in life advances, in the measure that life gains meaning.