And we have imagined the numbing effects of emotional suffering too. Here, unsurprisingly, my words circle back to the liberal arts. Make a practice of provoking your own mind to think out what it accepts easily. Our position is not ours till we make it ours by suffering. The struggle is to express your inarticulate feelings.
Liberation comes after suffering.
That is the reason that suffering, even in the apparently trivial way you may feel you are doing so now during the days of your final examinations, is essential to the liberating arts and to this place. One might suppose that if something is good, it should be sought out and cultivated. But this is not true for suffering. It is a good means but not a good end. What is good is the submission to the will of God, and suffering can help.