Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
Don’t run away from things that are unpleasant in order to embrace things that are pleasant. Put your hands in the earth. Face the difficulties and grow new happiness.
When you suffer, psychologically, remain with it completely without a single movement of thought. Out of that suffering comes compassion. And that energy is totally different from the mechanistic energy of thought.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.
Inner silence promotes clarity of mind. It makes us value the inner world, it trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest thing we will ever do.