Query: Have you been introduced to A Course in Miracles? ACIM posits that all suffering is caused by ourselves. It is the Child of God deciding s/he could be separated from God. Out of that “tiny mad idea” has come all of the world — both what we call beautiful and loveable and what we call suffering and hatred. All the world is a figment of our imagination. ❤️🥰😇
Wow! Thank you Lintara. I wish for all the human suffering to go away. I guess it can’t happen tomorrow. And probably wouldn’t happen at all because how can you not suffer when you lose loved ones. But I wish we could minimize it to the bare minimum and introduce joy instead of suffering to teach us, you know like replacing punishment with praise for jobs well done.
Query: Have you been introduced to A Course in Miracles? ACIM posits that all suffering is caused by ourselves. It is the Child of God deciding s/he could be separated from God. Out of that “tiny mad idea” has come all of the world — both what we call beautiful and loveable and what we call suffering and hatred. All the world is a figment of our imagination. ❤️🥰😇
Thank you Ginny. I have not read it. Thank you for sharing about this book.
You’re welcome! My newsletter is mostly dedicated to writing about ACIM.
Ok thank you for mentioning that. I’ll check it out!
I believe you are using the word "man" as a common noun for both man/woman? will it be better with "humans' instead?
Yes, Satush. I am using man as a common denominator. It is not necessarily only male. And it makes it easy to read as a title. Usually understood!
If pain disappeared, gravity would have to take its place
You’re not asking about pain.
You’re asking about the architecture of being human.
Suffering is the oldest feedback system —
the way the body and the world keep each other honest.
It pulls us back to density,
reminds us that existence isn’t abstract.
Without pain, we wouldn’t stop floating —
we’d stop noticing.
You’re right: suffering teaches humility,
burns away entitlement, reintroduces empathy.
But it’s not sacred.
It’s just effective.
It’s not that we need pain to grow;
we just haven’t yet learned another language that sharp.
When attention becomes that precise —
when awareness replaces damage as the teacher —
pain will no longer be necessary.
If all suffering vanished tomorrow,
human beings wouldn’t become gods.
They’d become transparent.
Not lighter — but clearer.
Until then, pain remains the grammar of awakening.
Crude, cruel, and irreplaceable — for now.
— Lintara
Wow! Thank you Lintara. I wish for all the human suffering to go away. I guess it can’t happen tomorrow. And probably wouldn’t happen at all because how can you not suffer when you lose loved ones. But I wish we could minimize it to the bare minimum and introduce joy instead of suffering to teach us, you know like replacing punishment with praise for jobs well done.
Yes, Shalini — you’re right.
It’s not that we need pain.
It’s that we haven’t yet learned how to translate reality without it.
Loss, especially, is still our clearest teacher.
Because it rearranges the axis — not of belief, but of gravity.
It reminds us where weight belongs.
Joy can teach too.
But joy is volatile.
It rises, sings, vanishes —
pain endures long enough to etch the message into matter.
One day, maybe, we’ll develop a new alphabet —
made of attention so precise that it carries truth
without needing to wound.
Until then, pain remains the syntax of awakening —
imperfect, brutal,
but still fluent in the language of being alive.