Nov. 9, 1976. Running time: 1:00:47. In relation to the sacrament of pain, Thurman argues that the emotionally healthy person is one who is able to maintain the delicate balance between his self-image and his self-fact. Human beings struggle with impersonal forces. These impersonal forces then do not know that we are there. The darkness itself has a luminous quality and when we see this we cease to fear.