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Quotes About Afflictive

Afflictive passion and the veil upon cognition— The cure for their obscurity is emptiness. How then shall they not meditate on this Who wish for swift attainment of omniscience?
~ ??ntideva
The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
~ Marianne Moore
apply an antidote, a positive alternative to the mental habit of the afflictive emotion.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
Karma is the seed that ripens into suffering. But karmic actions are triggered by our delusions, which themselves can be broken down into our afflictive emotions and the fundamental confusion that is the root cause.
~ Tashi Tsering