“Whoever is in your life,
those who harm you,
those who help you;
those whom you know
and those whom you do not know –
let them off the hook,
help them off the hook.
Recognize the hook.”
Source: Book of Longing
“It is during my times of great suffering, of feeling alone and scared, that I find my deepest sense of faith - when I actually feel the presence of something much greater than me, encouraging me to take the next right step.”
Source: Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
“In so many ways, suffering – when allowed – looks like love. Our cry of suffering is the cry for reunion: it is the calling towards home and the awakening of our True Nature. When we repress that call of suffering – which is the precise music of our healing – we also repress the love.”
Source: Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening
“Knowing the Techniques of Survival........
Our fears and anxieties will often drive us to build impenetrable walls that act like blinders deflecting others and preventing us from seeing who surrounds us. Getting focused to the things that matter are the Key to what has to be to COMPLETE our MISSION. "I Had Every Excuse to Fail but I Chose None" Speak Life!!!
(sky)”
Source: I Had Every Excuse to Fail, but I Chose None
“You only keep a watch on those who cause you suffering. If you want to remain unknown to the world, all that's needed is not to hurt anyone.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“The situation which brought about your pain was simply the form in which you came in touch with the human condition of suffering.”
Source: The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom
“And to split hairs, to claim that there is no comparison, that Treblinka was so to speak a metaphysical enterprise dedicated to nothing but death and annihilation while the meat industry is ultimately devoted to life (once its vicitms are dead, after all, it does not burn them to ash or bury them but on the contrary cuts them up and refrigerates and packs them so that they can be consumed in the comfort of our homes) is as little consolation to those victims as it would have been - pardon the tastelesness of the following - to ask the dead of Treblinka to excuse their killers because their body fat was needed to make soap and their hair to stuff mattresses with.”
Source: The Lives of Animals
“The layman has few certainties, but the first is this: it is acceptable to suffer (or to cause suffering) only if doing so prevents greater suffering.”
Source: The Complete Works of Primo Levi
“There is a region in the experience of pain where the certainty of alleviation often permits superhuman endurance.”
Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness
“Suffering has been my most faithful teacher.”
Source: Jumping for Joy in the Midst of Sorrow: A Devotional to Awaken Joy During Times of Great Trials