Happiness Quote by Sam Harris Download Open image ““Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering”” — Sam Harris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness Human suffering Philosophy of life Philosophy of Mind Suffering
“Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“strengthening habitual patterns of suffering. We begin to see this more and more clearly, and we begin to realize that we can do something… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Human suffering is caused mainly by ideas, emotions, and thoughts which are the handiwork of the human itself.” — Shai Tubali Copy Share Image
Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself,… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, you are probably creating suffering for others too. These unconscious mind patterns tend… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.” — Brent Green Copy Share Image
Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is. — Marcus Thomas Copy Share Image
“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in the modern… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Your principal concern appears to be that the Creator of the universe will take offense at something people do while naked. This prudery of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Whether or not one likes Huntington's formulation, one thing is clear: the evil that has finally reached our shores is not merely the evil… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
