Adyashanti Quotes, Real Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.

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Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.

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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Technology Quotes , Suffering Quotes

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

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We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.

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External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.

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It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.

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The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

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Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

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We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

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Tags : Ajahn Sumedho Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Trying 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"?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Pain Quotes , Suffering Quotes

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Feelings Quotes , Suffering Quotes

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

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

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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

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I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

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O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

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Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

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