Alan Watts Quotes, Moon Quotes, Suffering Quotes

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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The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

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If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

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I think the person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life.

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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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Suffering is an illusion.

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There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

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My God is love and sweetly suffers all.

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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

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All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

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I teach about suffering and the way to end it

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Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

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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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The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

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Suffering belongs to no language.

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The more we are using clean energy, renewable energy sources, the less environmentally problematic facilities end up being a problem for everybody, but particularly for folks who have to suffer the consequences of some of these facilities.

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

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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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Pity makes suffering contagious.

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