If you want to get anywhere in this life these three things are indispensable, especially if you aspire to a life that might be called 'Spiritual".
Love requires a lot of hard work; and if you really love with the whole of your heart then suffering is inevitable.
Happily all of these things also bring you towards wisdom, and a deeper and deeper engagement with life and what it means to be human.
So when Buddhists try to sell you a life free of suffering by means of their dissociative techniques ("mindfulness" seems to be the code-word they go by these days) or you pass a bar or a liquor store offering much the same relief, think of Jack Kerouac and how badly these temptations led the poor man astray.
P. Julian
19 November 2018
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