"As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology."
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"Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint."
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"All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God."
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"Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first."
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"Suffering and drama begin when you lie to yourself, even if you don't realize you are lying."
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"Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity."
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"As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends."
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"Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love."
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"In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified."
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"We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity."
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"Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable."
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"Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion."
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"Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us."
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"All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world."
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"The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender."
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"To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it."
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"True knowledge comes only through suffering."
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"According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss."
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"I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson."
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"As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth."
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