If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.
There is something embarrassing in. . . the way in which,. . . turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are,. . . wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.
May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
There is a way to reach enlightenment and get beyond suffering.
She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.
If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.
From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.
It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back.
Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.
One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.
. . . how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if one can look at it only through theprison bars of illness and suffering! Plus je vois, the more I am thrilled by the spectacle.
If you suffer in love, if you have problems in love, it's because you don't have enough humility.
The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and denigration of the animals because we will have made them up.
Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.