small, regular doses of pain , aphorism 365, A Human Strategy by Matt Berry

365

We can train ourselves for a sudden and inevitable great empowerment with small, regular doses of pain ... to the point of pleasure.  The pain of setting an exercise routine for example ... of tearing muscles or straining the heart daily.

Perhaps this is anticlimactic, but with the framework of Christianity still in place, I feel it necessary to let the reader know I am not speaking of hair shirts, but of the natural reflex against replacing one habit with another ... no matter how advantageous this new habit may be ... and that every advance toward distant, accumulated pleasures and values demands just this sharp, immediate pain of tearing and rebuilding ... followed by a daily, petty maintenance.





A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism



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