Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
The reward of suffering is experience.
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.