Suffering
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When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn't help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
The reward of suffering is experience.
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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