Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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.
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest thing we will ever do.
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.
People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.
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.
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.
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.