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Suffering Quotes by Sharon Salzberg
- Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a…
- One of the primary conditions for suffering is denial. Shutting our mind to pain, whether in ourselves or others, only ensures that it will continue.…
- In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.
- We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and…
- As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that…
- It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong.…
- To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught,…
- In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find…
- By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we…
- All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves…
- Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. This is a delicate and profound path.…
- In contrast, compassion manifests in us as the offering of kindness rather than withdrawal. Because compassion is a state of mind that is itself open,…
- Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without hesitation,…
- We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for…
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
- 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