Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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.
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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.
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.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
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.
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.