"As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave."
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"There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together."
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"To succeed,all I need to do is suffer."
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"Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself"
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"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn."
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"Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary."
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"Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it."
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"Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'."
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"The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more."
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"Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego."
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"For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering."
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"Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured."
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"Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message."
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"If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering."
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"Whyle I was abowte to chaunge myn olde lyff-- What sorowe I suffred, dyseese, angre and stryff, Cracchynge myn here, my chekys all totare, Wrythynge my fyngres for angwysshe and care, Watrynge the erthe with my byttre salte teres That the crye of my syghes ascended to Goddys eres, My knees with myn handys grasped togedyre soore, And yitt I stode the same man I was afore Tyl a depe profounde remembraunce att the laste Hadd all my wrecchednesse afore myn eyn caste"
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"If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there."
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"Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us."
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"One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already vibrating, and as he observes it, he includes it in his vibrational countenance. As he includes it, the Universe accepts that as his point of attraction and gives him more of it. So the better it gets the better it gets. Or the worse it gets the worse it gets. While one who is a visionary thrives in all times."
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"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it."
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"A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world."
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