Pain, suffering, and the loss of pleasure, then, sometimes constitute who we are and what we value. They are essentially woven into our deepest commitments.
The source of meaning. It is as though there is a treat within a pile of rubbish but remove the (no, recognise the rubbish and the treat have the same nature) and rather than be left with nothing one discovers a great open field previously obscurred with treats and rubbish.
