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Suffering Quotes by Ram Dass
- Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.
- Within the spiritual journey you understand that suffering becomes something that has been given to you to show you where your mind is still stuck.…
- Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.
- Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.
- As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make…
- The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering…
- Suffering brings me so close to God.
- My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.
- Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
- Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.
- We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.
- I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of…
- Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To…
- What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of…
- Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
- The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
- Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is…
More Suffering Quotes
- 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
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- 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