SOUL GROWTH.
The deepest human craving is not to have pleasurable excitement or to avoid pain: it is to touch those deeps of life where there is infinite joy—and pain. Hence the superficiality of all happiness theories ; they do not comprehend human nature. No healthy human soul would choose in the last resort to he deluded with a pleasurable falsehood rather than to know a bitter truth. We crave love, even though it means pain as well as joy. All education, all refinement bring suffering and the capacity for suffering, just as they bring joy and the capacity for joy. The pain may in many cases be greater than the joy, yet we choose the growth, for it means life. We would suffer the agonies of Brunhild rather than be incapable of love. We would submit to the tortures of doubt and questioning that oppressed the soul of Hamlet, rather than rest on a distorted truth and be insensible to the mystery ot life. The path of life, of growth, of more positive realisation, even though it be the path of pain—such is our choice, such is the final choice of all human souls. —Edward Howard Griggs.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3777, 12 November 1907, Page 4
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197SOUL GROWTH. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3777, 12 November 1907, Page 4
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