Sara Pouladi
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How will you-you personally- ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering??? What's your answer to Alaska's question? "Straight & fast"???
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Aakanksha Goel
I think there is no way to get out of this labyrinth of sufferings. It's just about finding the happy the moments on your way and carrying them along with you and cherishing them at your worst moments. That's the way it is.
BopKing
I don't think there is a labyrinth of suffering. There's no labyrinth, there's nothing to escape - just life as it is. Suffering isn't some insane puzzle or trap, just moments that come and go like everything else in the world. Emotions, physical objects, people, everything has its time.
E
i personally believe that we are all apart of the labyrinth perhaps without even knowing. The labyrinth is metaphor for your problems or depression you must simply fight your way through. Alaska liked the metaphor so much because she was depressed and she found it a good way to represent the way she felt inside. Trapped. Lonely. Like she was maze and couldn't get out unless she gave up.
Chex
Everyone here's talking about a spiritual way to get out of the labyrinth of suffering which I think is possibly one way to think about it because of how they attended a school that was teaching religious studies and this is where the topic came off. However coming from quite an atheist point of view, the "labyrinth of suffering" would relate to life and how we deal with the challenges and obstacles it brings us. By changing our perspective on life, we can escape this "labyrinth of suffering" by just changing the word "suffering" and making it into something brighter and easier to deal with. It no longer becomes a maze if we have the right people to guide us and it know longer is filled with "suffering" if we put the right things into our life. Life becomes more tolerable, not more sufferable at the end.
Ava Mitchell
A spiritual perspective (that has worked for me): To get out of the labyrinth of suffering, one much recognize it as a labyrinth of joy. There are many things that can go wrong in life, but usually, it is just a few things going wrong and many things going right. So, if you focus on what you are grateful for and change your thoughts about you and your life to positive thoughts, you will appreciate your life much more and you will attract more good things.
David
Well there are the obvious religious and philosophical solutions. As a Christian I believe the way out is through Jesus. What is joy without suffering? Individual growth occurs through a combination of satiation and suffering. Too much satiation, no growth. Too much suffering no growth. I think one reason for the presence of a tiger on the raft in the Life of Pi, is so that the main character stays alive. Without the vigilance and threat of death, life would vanish. Suffering also elicits meaning from us. So perhaps, a meaningful life requires some suffering. Anyway, those are a few of my thoughts on the question.....
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Anoop Mysore
I'd rather choose to stay in this labyrinth of suffering, as I have come to agree with, for there is no outside of it for me, or, I believe, for any of us.
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