Mastodawn

We know sorrow at different levels: physical sorrow, physical pain, the sorrow of death, the sorrow that comes when there is no fulfilment, the sorrow resulting from a state of emptiness, the sorrow that comes when ambition is not fulfilled. There is the sorrow of not coming up to the standard or the good example, and the sorrow of the ideal. Finally, there is the sorrow of identification. We know various forms of sorrow at different psychological and physiological levels, and also we know the various forms of escapes, drink, rituals, repetition of words, the turning to tradition, looking to the future, looking for better times, better hopes, better circumstances. We know all these forms of escapes: religious, psychological, physical and material. The more we escape, the greater and more complex the problems become. When we look at the problem, our whole structure is a series of escapes. You explain away sorrow – to you, then, explanation has more significance than the depth, the meaning and the vitality of sorrow.

From Collected Works, Vol. 6

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