Sara Pouladi asked this question about Looking for Alaska:
How will you-you personally- ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering??? What's your answer to Alaska's question? "Straight & fast"???
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 …moreEveryone 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. (less)
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by John Green (Goodreads Author)
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