The Path To Enlightenment

One can become desensitized to a wide range of experiences. The everyday is seen as the neutral or zero point on the scale of bad to good, with a seemingly infinite distance to either end. But there is a finite distance to pure "bad" within the tolerance of human life, and to know this state of being sets the ultimate ground point. Experience is no longer gauged by deviations from the neutral; they are gauged by how much better they are than certain death. Perspective is made whole, and discontent is put in its place.

There is a fine balance between perfect comfort and absolute suffering that reveals the best a human being is capable of. Such diversity is essential to a well-balanced human mind.