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  • Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Ajahn Chah Quotes , Giving Quotes , Suffering Quotes
  • But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Pain Quotes , Suffering Quotes
  • Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Desire Quotes