You read yourself in too-narrow terms.
Much of the pain connected with serious illness and death
results because you have no faith in your own continuing reality.
You fight pain because you have not learned to transcend it,
or rather to use it.
You do not trust the natural consciousness of the body,
so that when its end nears —
and such an end is inevitable —
you do not trust the signals that the body gives,
that are meant to free you.
Jane Roberts
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (A Seth Book)

