Foundation Quote by Carl Jung

Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.

— Marcus Thomas

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

— Stefan Molyneux

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

— M. Scott Peck

The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought,…

— Eckhart Tolle

“All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering”

— Stefan Molyneux

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

— Charles R. Swindoll

All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master of your…

— Barbara Brennan

Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from…

— Dorothee Solle

“The movement of descent and discovery begins at the moment you consciously become dissatisfied with life. Contrary to most professional opinion, this gnawing dissatisfaction…

— Ken Wilber

The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.

— Deepak Chopra

“[W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe.…

— Anonymous