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- Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to…
- You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the…
- It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the…
- Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the…
- Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.
- As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment…
- We dream forever unless we awaken. We move from one dream to another, some beautiful, some we're the hero or the heroine, some horrible, some…
- The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they…
- Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody…
- Nothing is here in this world that is of any interest at all.
- Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and…
- A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the…
- Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair.…
- In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here.
- Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.
- The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world…
- You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.
- We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait
- Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your…
- People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not…
- Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you…
- Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of your body as…
- Hell is everything. Heaven is nothing.
- Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows,…
- You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting to go back…
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- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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