“You suffer because you expect.”
“How could I bear it if something or someone ever hurt this child? I was suddenly cognizant that there were innumerable ways that my world could be shattered now - ways I'd never imagined. I could count the number of minutes my daughter had been alive, and already I glimpsed that love holds in itself the seeds of great suffering.”
Source: Ruined
“.. [M]uch suffering serves absolutely no function and entails no silver lining whatsoever, such as the suffering endured by countless [non-human animals] every second who are eaten alive while fully conscious and unable to escape, or the suffering entailed by debilitating chronic pain. The world contains vast amounts of such useless suffering, and we should all be able to agree that this suffering is worth preventing.”
Source: Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
“And so I did just that. Walk. At first, the stones dug into the sole of my feet, and I left red footprints in my every step. Then, my skin hardened, and I stopped bleeding. After a while, I could not feel the road at all anymore. That is the way of life, I suppose. We bleed, and ache, and then we get used to it.”
Source: Renault of the Styx
“There are many things in the world. If we care for them all a little, we won't feel the hurt too much when we part with one.”
Source: Mountain Born
“Death in itself is a beautiful process. It's like being born.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“All suffering is mind-made. Where is suffering in the world? In pain? No. In harsh words people say? How could sounds spoken cause suffering? Suffering only exists in our anticipation of events unfavorable to the mind due to desires not met, or regrets from the past that live as memories in our mind.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“You are not your trauma. You are not your circumstances. You are that eternal unchanging light of consciousness. Your true nature cannot be hurt. Your body can be hurt, your property can be lost. But no one can touch the real you.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.”
Source: Liefde in tijden van cholera
“There is no beginning and there is no end. When was time born? When will time die? Why would we even think of beginnings and endings? There is only change. We grow from the soil and we will return to it as food for the future.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life