The Importance of Suffering Quotes

“While ‘humans as a species’ are highly malleable, ‘the human as an individual’ is not. For once we as individuals have attained a sufficient degree of social adaptation, and so have come to enjoy a settled level of security, acceptance and belonging, we invariably find that our capacity to change in any significant way considerably diminishes. This leads us to ask the crucial question as to why we as individuals, once having acclimatised successfully to our particular social world, find our capacity to change significantly weakened.”
― James Davies, The Importance of Suffering: The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent