Awakening Quote by L.M.Blanchard

Suffering is an illusion.

— Gautama Buddha

“Suffering goes beyond pain. It resides in the mind. It results from how we interpret what happens to us, not from the situation itself.”

— Robert S. Rosenthal

“Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. Suffering takes us out of our rational self-control and lets the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

— Ram Dass

“We have become disconnected from our true selves, and naturally, this has produced a deep sense of lack in our lives, causing us to…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and…

— Shauna Niequist

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

— Amit Ray

“Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are. Stop for a second and look at…

— Brad Warner

“Our suffering comes from our unlived life--the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche.”

— C.G. Jung

“Suffering is one of the greatest spiritual teachers of humanity. Even though none of us really ever welcomes it...having had enough of it in…

— Timothy Pina

As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally…

— Christmas Humphreys

“The cause of our suffering is not what we do, but the way we perceive.”

— Rodney Smith