ON BEING COLUMN – Some Things Just Hurt

Some Things Just Hurt

Weekly Column By Sharon Salzberg for On Being Blog
Published March 13th, 2016

Accepting suffering doesn’t mean that it goes away, or even that it gets better. Too often, we conflate the idea of “being spiritual” or the idea of acceptance with the New Age-y cliché that we can simply say no to suffering. We can learn to feel discomfort in a far more pure and direct way, without the additional burden of distorted thinking. But I still maintain that some things just hurt.

Sharon Salzberg

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