Concerning the Nature of Pain, Suffering, Joy, and Bliss
GA 107/1908-10-27/p021
·1908-10-27
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We are thus able to understand pain and privation by rising from the lowest stage up to that of blissfulness. In one world we can always follow the traces of something that passes through all the worlds.
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