Vincent van Gogh’s Advice on How to Deal With Pain

“In learning to suffer without complaining 
Learning to look on pain without repugnance
That is about where one risks vertigo

And yet it is possible
One might even suppose it a likelihood
That on the others side of life
We shall discover the significance of pain

Which, seen from here
So fills our entire horizon
That it takes on the proportions
Of a hopeless deluge

About this
About its proportions
We know very little

And so it is better
To look at a wheat field

Even in the form of a painting.”

Quote: From Vincent van Gogh’s letter to his brother Theo on July 2nd, 1889, translated from Dutch by myself. 
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh