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I changed my life to the extend of almost been reborn as a person.

Myself

I've been there...

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee

Don Carroll is an author and spiritual director. His writing includes non-fiction, fiction, and contemplative work.

carroll.williamdon@gmail.com

Davidson, NC

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  • Coming to Mary Oliver for Spiritual Direction Jan 18

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  • Coming to Howard Thurman for Spiritual Direction Jun 19

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  • Spiritual Direction with Dorothy Day Oct 12

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  • Coming to Joseph Campbell for Spiritual Direction Sep 4

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  • Dag Hammarskjold Comes to Spiritual Direction Jun 17

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  • Adam Smith Comes for Spiritual Direction Apr 18

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  • John Wesley Comes to Spiritual Direction Apr 6

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  • Going to Evagrius Ponticus for Spiritual Direction Apr 6

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  • Jimmy Carter Comes to Spiritual Direction Mar 7

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