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title: "3 Suffering Path Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pema-ch-dr-n/use-what-seems-like-poison-as-medicine-use-your-personal-suffering-as/)

[Pema Chodron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pema-ch-dr-n/)

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> [“But if, instead of thinking of these feelings as bad, we could think of them as road signs or barometers that tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pema-ch-dr-n/but-if-instead-of-thinking-of-these-feelings-as-bad-we-could-think-of/)

[Pema Chödrön](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pema-ch-dr-n/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0e/pema-ch-dr-n-327_feelings_but-if-instead-of-thinking-of-these-feel_1027575.png)

> [“... the four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sid-brown/the-four-noble-truths-that-there-is-suffering-that-it-has-an-origin/)

[Sid Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sid-brown/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e9/sid-brown-278243_buddhism_the-four-noble-truths-that-there-is-suff_1525678.jpg)

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