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If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation state. I was concentrating the whole time, thinking, 'Oh my God, it's time. I am going to meet my baby. What is he going to look like?'

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

There is no love without suffering.