Adyashanti Quotes, Suffering Quotes, May Quotes

When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness, you do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you're willing to be disturbed. You're willing to be amazed. You're willing to be surprised. You're willing to realize that maybe everything you've ever thought about yourself really isn't true.

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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

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Despair Quotes

It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Live Life Quotes , Suffering Quotes

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Suffering Quotes

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

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What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Able Quotes

Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Noble Quotes

I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Dream Quotes , Suffering Quotes

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Pain Quotes , Suffering Quotes

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

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Tags : Al Jarreau Quotes , Long Quotes , Suffering Quotes

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Desire Quotes

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Feelings Quotes , Suffering Quotes

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Pain Quotes , Suffering Quotes

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

Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.

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Tags : Ajahn Chah Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Bodhisattva Quotes

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Needs Quotes

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Suffering Quotes , India Quotes

In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Men Quotes , Suffering Quotes

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Injustice Quotes