confront or avoid

it is important for us to confront our sensuous nature and not merely avoid (or repress) the sensuous. we must feel suffering in order to overcome it through our independence of it via moral nature. There is a need for passionate suffering.

"Nowhere does the Greek seek his glory by dulling the suffering or by indifference to it, but rather by enduring the suffering with every feeling for it." (Schiller, On the Pathetic p. 47)