“Truth is not a pain killer. This means that truth might bring the experience of relief, or it might bring the experience of pain. But either way, it holds within it the power of positive change.”
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American spiritual teacher 1984Related quotes
“The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.”
Laura Anne Gilman book Flesh and Fire
Source: Flesh and Fire (2009), p. 304
Robert Pinsky (1940) American poet, editor, literary critic, academic.
The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz
“Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Lectures XI, XII, AND XIII : "Saintliness" https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience/Lectures_XI,_XII,_and_XIII <br class="br">1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) <br class="br">Context: One mode of emotional excitability is exceedingly important in the composition of the energetic character, from its peculiarly destructive power over inhibitions. I mean what in its lower form is mere irascibility, susceptibility to wrath, the fighting temper; and what in subtler ways manifests itself as impatience, grimness, earnestness, severity of character. Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain. The pain may be pain to other people or pain to one's self — it makes little difference; for when the strenuous mood is on one, the aim is to break something, no matter whose or what. Nothing annihilates an inhibition as irresistibly as anger does it; for, as Moltke says of war, destruction pure and simple is its essence.
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
The count leaned forward. “Knowledge.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 21, “The Frightened Ones” (p. 491).
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Já me desenganei que de queixar-me
não se alcança remédio; mas, quem pena,
forçado lhe é gritar, se a dor é grande.
Gritarei; mas é débil e pequena
a voz para poder desabafar-me,
porque nem com gritar a dor se abrande.
"Vinde cá, meu tão certo secretário", trans. by Landeg White in The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes (2016), p. 297
Lyric poetry, Hymns (canções)
June Jordan (1936–2002) Poet, essayist, playwright, feminist and bisexual activist
"Life After Lebanon" (1984), later published in On Call : Political Essays (1985), and Some of Us Did Not Die : New and Selected Essays of June Jordan (2002)
William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
Preface to The Pentateuch (1530) http://www.bible-researcher.com/tyndale2.html
Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) English children's fantasy writer
Source: Dalemark Quartet, Cart and Cwidder (1975), p. 212.