"The world is so full of suffering, and all of us suffer so greatly in body and spirit, that even the saints have difficulty understanding this. It is one of the most difficult tasks of the individuation process to accept sorrow and joy, pain and pleasure, God's anger and God's grace. The opposites - suffering and joy, pain and pleasure - are symbolically united in masochism. Thus life can be actually accepted, and even pain can be joyfully experienced. The masochist, in a remarkable and fantastic way, confronts and comes to terms with the greatests opposites of our existence."
- Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature, Eds. Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams
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