Fear Quote by Michael S.A. Graziano

The craving for things we think are outside ourselves binds us to suffering.

— Senoraroy

“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps…

— Adrienne Rich

“that suffering is the result of craving expressed through the Three Poisons: greed, hatred, and delusion.”

— Rick Hanson

“He continued probing within himself to experience the real nature of suffering, and he found that “attachment to the five aggregates is suffering.”2 At…

— William Hart

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with…

— Michael Adam Hamilton

I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness…

— Caroline Myss

“Clinging to what is dear brings sorrow and fear. Sorrow and fear spring from affection; from indulgence in sensual pleasures; from preoccupation with lustful…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“With concentration on nonself—the reality that we do not have a separate self—we become aware that suffering is there not only in us but…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear

— Gautama Buddha