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37. Let us return to our topic. We can try to limit suffering, to fight against it, but we cannot eliminate it. It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love, and goodness, that we drift into a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark sensation of meaninglessness and abandonment is all the greater. It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.

ENCYCLICAL LETTER

SPE SALVI

OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF

BENEDICT XVI

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Dantes's avatar

A much needed article. It is absurd when these stoic preachers of masculinity tell men that feelings don't matter and at the same time that they need improve themselves. Moreover, these preachers attract an audience of men who are feeling bad and keep those who get emotional relief from their content.

Stoicism is a tool to be used not a doctrine to live by.

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