“The only thing worse than assuming you could get the better of suffering…is imagining you could do nothing in its wake." 

-pico iyer on suffering in the nyt

jonah lehrer in the wsj on meditation and pain management

photo: Miriam Sitchinava

…makes you stronger?

“Perhaps the one most fundamental thing you learn in living through an experience like this is that you can come out the other end of almost anything”

Psychologist Laura King in the New York Times

omenlee:

John Divola, Zuma Series, 1977