Quotes About Suffering

The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.

It is always the case that both victim and perpetrator suffer the consequences of any acts of violence, oppression, or brutality.

The fire of suffering becomes the light of consciousness.

pressure of suffering that night must have forced my consciousness to withdraw from its identification with the unhappy and deeply fearful self, which is ultimately a fiction of the mind.

If the egoic earth drama has any purpose at all, it is an indirect one: It creates more and more suffering on the planet, and suffering, although largely ego­created, is in the end also ego­destructive. It is the fire in which the ego burns itself up.

When you say "no" to a person or a situation, let it come not from reaction but from insight, from a clear realization of what is right or not right for you at that moment. Let it be a nonreactive "no," a high-quality "no," a "no" that is free of all negativity and so creates no further suffering.

Nothing is what it seems to be. The world that you create and see through the egoic mind may seem a very imperfect place, even a vale of tears.

El Buda dice que el dolor o sufrimiento surge por el deseo y que para liberarnos del sufrimiento tenemos que cortar los lazos del deseo.

Cómo podemos abandonar la negatividad, tal como usted sugiere? Soltándola. ¿Cómo suelta un trozo de carbón caliente que tiene en la mano? ¿Cómo suelta un equipaje pesado e inútil que lleva? Reconociendo que usted no quiere sufrir el dolor o soportar la carga más y después dejándola ir.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind. The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it.

You teach through being, through demonstrating the peace of God. You become the "light of the world," an emanation of pure consciousness, and so you eliminate suffering on the level of cause.

I understood that the intense pressure of suffering that night must have forced my consciousness to withdraw from its identification with the unhappy and deeply fearful self, which is ultimately a fiction of the mind.

La identificación con su mente, que hace que el pensamiento se vuelva compulsivo. No ser capaz de dejar de pensar es una calamidad terrible, pero no nos damos cuenta de ello así que se considera normal. Este ruido mental incesante nos impide encontrar ese reino de quietud interior que es inseparable del Ser. También crea un falso ser hecho por la mente que arroja una sombra de temor y de sufrimiento.

greater part of human suffering is not due to natural disasters, but is inflicted by humans on one another.

people who are reaching a point where they become capable of breaking out of inherited collective mind-patterns that have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life — to allow life to live through you. The alternatives are pain and suffering, a greatly restricted flow of life energy, and in many cases physical disease.

The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire.

through nonresistance, nonjudgment, and non-attatchment] you can participate in the dance of creation and be active without attachment to outcome and without placing unreasonable demands upon the world: fulfil me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world can not give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self-created suffering comes to an end.

The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are in engaged in doing anything at all—from the most simple task to the most complex. If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

People with heavy pain-bodies usually have a better chance to awaken spiritually than those with a relatively light one.

la causa principal del sufrimiento físico y de las enfermedades físicas. El resentimiento, el odio, la autocompasión, la culpa, la ira, la depresión, los celos y así sucesivamente, incluso la más leve irritación, son todas formas del sufrimiento. Y todo placer o elevación emocional contiene en sí mismo la semilla del dolor:

Deep unconsciousness, such as the pain-body, or other deep pain, such as the loss of a loved one, usually needs to be transmuted through acceptance combined with the light of your presence —

cuanto más capaz sea de honrar y aceptar el Ahora, más libre estará del dolor, del sufrimiento y de la mente egótica.

El sufrimiento necesita del tiempo; no puede sobrevivir en el Ahora.