"Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation."
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"God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it."
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"It is by suffering that human beings become angels."
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"Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace."
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"When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates."
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"Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself."
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"A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy."
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"Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself."
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"No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people."
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"We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world."
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"I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless."
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"We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased."
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"Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty."
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"When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough."
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"We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering."
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"Man suffers through lack of faith in God."
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"Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got"
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"Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage."
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"I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose."
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"There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit."
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