(The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things.... Stop being a glass. Become a lake.)
作者Mark Nepo (0 评论)
Mark Nepo讨论了生命中疼痛的固有性质，将其与持续数量的盐进行比较。这个类比说明，尽管疼痛是一个不变的因素，但我们的经验可能会根据我们的观点而变化。我们感知和包含痛苦的方式影响了它的痛苦。通过改变思维方式，我们可以减轻我们感到的痛苦强度。