Adyashanti Quotes, Eye Quotes, Suffering Quotes

When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?

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Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Suffering Quotes

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

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If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.

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We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.

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Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

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My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

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I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering-that also is through human intelligence.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Believe Quotes , Suffering Quotes

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

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Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

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If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Pleasant Surprises Quotes

We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Blow Quotes , Suffering Quotes

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

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Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

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Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

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We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

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Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Suffering Quotes

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Culture Quotes

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Weakness Quotes