Pain
To try to avoid pain and to always seek pleasure will mean, much
of the time, the non-acceptance of truth. It usually means the
rejection of what is there. It means rejecting your experience.
It means rejecting your consciousness. It means rejecting yourself.
Now how is that going to lead to harmony and happiness? Sometimes
your experience is painful. What are you going to do? It’s
your experience. If you don’t want it, you have to throw
away. Then you throw away part of yourself. Well, how can you
be happy if part of yourself is thrown away? (Diamond Heart Book
1, pg 232)