Suffering maybe useful in some instances.
Suffering may cause you to be careful that you don't walk into a thorn bush.
So in this system the total of nature is interrelated
but we don't like any part of nature that hurts us.
That's why you wear clothing and an umbrella when it rains.
You don't love nature, I never met a nature lover.
A nature lover takes home poison ivy; takes home everything,
he doesn't take home the plants that he likes.
Most people don't have enough knowledge to know where the system is fucked up,
they don't know the contradictions of the system.
The reason Eastern philosophy takes is because
everybody alive is hungry for love, warmth and acceptance.
They want to come into a house where the door is always open.
They don't want any deals.
Everybody wants true love; total trust, total freedom, total belief, total devotion to one another,
but nobody has been conditioned to give it.
And all your dreams, if they were answered tomorrow, if you got down on your knees and prayed
for the best of possible worlds, you would be unhappy.
because you don't know really what you want.
Because sometimes if you met a guy; a girl, that loved you, really loved you,
and did everything that you wanted her to do you might dislike her.
Because you may need a girl who says “no, I don't go along with that”.
It may be the conflict that you need.
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As Jacque said, all of us are caught in a certain phase of civilization,
that we can never arrive at an ultimate society, we're always at some phase.
So the point is what are you going to do with this phase?