"Pain and pleasure," as Amrit [Desai] liked to say, "come as twins — as two ends of the same stick." Where pleasure is, there pain will be. Where attraction is, there aversion will be. And love and hate; hope and dread; wish and fear; gain and loss; praise and blame; fame and ill-repute.

Stephen Cope, Amrit Desai, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self by Stephen Cope