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Suffering Quotes by Frederick Lenz
- When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.
- It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings just in order…
- Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.
- Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a…
- We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice…
- Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it might not appear…
- Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering,…
- The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering…
- When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then,…
- The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.
- You are going to die. Your physical body will disintegrate. You cannot help that.
- You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and…
- If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but…
- At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's…
- The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's the body of…
- People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no…
- If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out. There are no…
- I see people driving cars, winding down the streets. I don't know where these people think they're going. They're going to the funeral home; that's…
- No one cares about you. No one cares. You will die and be forgotten.
- We see the most beautiful creations whither. The beautiful young maiden becomes the old woman and she hates her body because it isn't what it…
- There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.
- As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of…
- There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step…
- Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.
- Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment…
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila