Whenever you suffer pain, have ready to hand the thought that

why, thank you marky

>>2768779
Be like the rocky headland upon which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and the seething waters are laid to rest.

Say to yourself first thing in the morning,; today o shall meet people who are meddling, treacherous, ungrateful, aggressive, malicious, unsocial. All this has afflicted them through their ignorance of true good and evil. But I have seen the nature of good is what is right, and the nature of evil what is wrong; and I have reflected that the nature of the offender is akin to my own - not a kinship of blood or seed, but a sharing in the same mind, the same fragment of divinity. Therefore I cannot be harmed by any of them, as none will infect me with their wrong. Nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him. We were born for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. So to work in opposition to one another is against nature: and anger or rejection is opposition.

>>2768779
Pain has been known to effect the decision making process.

>>2769012
By necessity or by choice? To a constant degree among everybody or does it vary from person to person, and how severe they judge the type of pain to be?