Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
I will hurt you for this. I don’t know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you’ll know the debt is paid.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds – and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.
Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as they are.
Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.
When you feel like you’ve had it up to here, and you’re mad enough to scream, but you’re sad enough to tear, that’s rock bottom.
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
Great souls suffer in silence.
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.