Spiritual Gems

When I found that pain was the r
When I found that pain was the reverse side & the training of delight, I sought to heap blows on myself & multiply suffering in all my members; for even God's tortures seemed to me slow & slight & inefficient. Then my Lover had to stay my hand & cry, “Cease; for my stripes are enough for thee.”

Sri Aurobindo

(498−Thoughts and Aphorisms)