Quotes About Suffering

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."

Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.

As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.

Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

Growth is ugly, it's hideous, it's all the things we don't like but my god, once you walk through the fire of confusion you will feel burning passion within your flame.

When in pain and sorrow, you ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people, remember God allowed His Son, the best of us, to suffer the most so that Christ would have the ability to heal us.

If you love to live in this world as if you put your self in the fire of hell

Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.

Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).

Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust...

Do you know what it's like, to hide in the shadows until your soul starts to blend into the darkness?

All suffering is not demonic or possess demonic influences. Oftentimes, Christ is simply allowing us to be strengthen for the next level of destiny.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.