Quotes About Resilience

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper.

The fire of suffering becomes the light of consciousness.

Every challenge that it contains is actually a disguised opportunity for salvation.

All life forms need obstacles and challenges in order to evolve.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim.

The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can then no longer survive. This is called surrender. Surrender is not weakness. There is great strength in it.

The present moment is sometimes unacceptable, unpleasant, or awful.

This, too, will pass...

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

What could be more heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light. Some carbons, under inconceivable heat and pressure, turn into diamonds, and some heavy minerals into other precious stones.

you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.

welcome it no matter in what disguise it comes,...

NO OFRECER RESISTENCIA A LA VIDA es estar en un estado de gracia, tranquilidad y ligereza, un estado que no depende de que las cosas sean de cierta manera, buenas o malas.

There is something that needs to happen in my life before I can be at peace (happy, fulfilled, etc.). And I resent that it hasn't happened yet. Maybe my resentment will finally make it happen." "Something happened in the past that should not have happened, and I resent that. If that hadn't happened, I would be at peace now." "Something is happening now that should not be happening, and it is preventing me from being at peace now.

El fracaso se esconde en cada éxito y el éxito en cada fracaso.

Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield.

yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depths to you as a human being–no humility, no compassion. You would not be listening to this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego. And then comes a point where it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize that it is unnecessary.

If you cannot accept what is outside, then accept what is inside. If you cannot accept the external condition, accept the internal condition. This means: Do not resist the pain. Allow it to be there. Surrender to the grief, despair, fear, loneliness, or whatever form the suffering takes. Witness it without labeling it mentally. Embrace it. Then see how the miracle of surrender transmutes deep suffering into deep peace. This is your crucifixion. Let it become your resurrection and ascension.

You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future — nor do you have to. The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.

purse, was steady.