"pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence"
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"I'm not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That's what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I've been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion."
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"It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?"
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"Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular."
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"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk."
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"I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed."
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"The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment."
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"But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay."
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"All things pass and pain is temporary. It comes to teach a lesson and when the lesson is understood it disappears into the night."
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"What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood."
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"Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant."
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"Pain is something to master, not to wallow in."
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"No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing."
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"When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness."
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"God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain."
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"Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant find that opening to be born. Oh friend! There is treasure in your heart, it is heavy with child. Listen. All the awakened ones, like trusted midwives are saying, 'welcome this pain. It opens the dark passage of Grace."
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"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."
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"Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me."
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"Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests."
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"We can't learn without pain."
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