لا يستطيع الإنسان أن يمتلك شيئًا ما دام يخشى الموت، أمّا من لا يخشاه فكلُّ شيءٍ له. ولو لم يكن ثمّة معاناة، لما عرف الإنسان حدوده، ولما عرف نفسه.

“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.”Leo Tolstoy — War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2011)