Freedom and Existence No.4 "Food"

Freedom and Existence No. 4 "Food"

Freedom and Existence No. 3 "Obesity"

Freedom and Existence No. 2 "Age of Anxiety"

Freedom and Existence No. 1  "Drugs"

Folk Wisdom about Pain and Change

Folk Wisdom about Pain and Change

Metaphorical use of 'pain'
The pains of change
No pain, no gain
Growing pains: learning to change and to adapt
Growing pains in business: recognizing and assessing the need for an organizational change
Labor pains of change
Major social change brings growing pains

Common sayings on the pain experience
It's an art to live with pain ... mix the light and grey
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain
Pain is never permanent
I was taught that pain is bad
Any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it
Who, except the gods, can live through time forever without any pain
Life is pain; anyone who says differently is selling something
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends

The transformative potential of 'pain'
We change when the pain to change is less than the pain to remain as we are
Never let the pain from your past punish your present and paralyze your future
Everyone bares pain in their heart; it either makes you or breaks you
Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain
There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll feel
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and truth
Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain
Without pain, no suffering, and we would never learn from our mistakes
With the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain

http://www.litera.co.uk/deep_emotional_pain_sayings
From Atoms, Bytes and Genes: Public Resistance and Techno-Scientific Responses by Martin W. Bauer