“All pain in life comes from wishing things were different than they are. Conversely, peace and happiness must come from accepting life as it is and breaking through the barriers of illusion to do so... All things that we label good or bad often hold in them surprises if we stay open. Each of us has choice in how we interpret life's events and in this way we are each responsible for our own reality.” IfsWayDifferentRealityPainChoicesWishAcceptingEventsIllusionAll ThingsResponsibleSurpriseLabelsBarriersPeace And HappinessAccepting LifePain In Life Author:Kristine Carlson
“Stop judging life! Look at every event as blessed. It is offering you the fastest track to get onto your highest, happiest and most successful state. Your soul is working it all out perfectly. When you accept this you will make life amendments easily and lovingly. Then the pain stops and the joyous creation begins.” LooksSoulStatesPainAcceptingSuccessfulEventsCreationJudgingHighestBlessedTrackYour SoulWorking ItOfferingAmendmentsJoyous Author:Melanie
“There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.” MenGivingHumansLongEndsEnoughActionPainTogetherSufferingPleasureEventsConsequenceChainsThis LifeProvidenceLinked Book:The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition
“In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.” IfsThinkingBelieveStillsPainWaterFireToo MuchEventsOughtCostPreservesScepticism Author:David Hume
“Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary.” PeopleThinkingWayLongPainTermEventsExampleSourceMajorsOrdinaryConsequenceStressMedicalTherapyLong TermBreakupInjuryLoved OnesIsolatedDeath Of A Loved OneUnemploymentDisturbingSeemingTollsInsidious Author:Gabor Mate
“Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.” KnowsPainEvilDestinyEventsEndureCalamity Author:Bill Vaughan
“Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.” IfsKnowsHappensPainStrongHistoryEventsSeasonsHarmonyStatementsHistorianLackingRight TimeConvincingSequenceElusiveDealingsNo PainVerify Book:To Think of Tea! Source: To Think of Tea!
“Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.” HandsPainSufferingEventsNightmare Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.” WorldGivingSelfPlayPainBeautifulFormLeftForceResultsGriefEventsFieldsColdDramaToughProfoundPassionateTrackClarityTelling The TruthGravityGlimpseElegantVividExaminationPartingElementalsIndelibleUnderstatedForce FieldsCenter Of Gravity Author:Chase Twichell
“Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.” SoulChristianPainPastEventsLessonsExperienceConstantChristian LoveVerification Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.” WellsChildrenPainJobsYoungBeliefGrowthGoneGrowingChildhoodEventsIdentityDevelopmentOughtComfortAdultsTasksEaseInternalsRelativeMatesAdulthoodAdolescenceFormationMarkersGrowing PainsPersonal ChangeChange GrowthInternal Peace Author:Lillian B. Rubin
“Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.” WellsHelpingShowsFeelingsHumorMightPainStuffGoalDealsAudienceWeekEventsLaughterProgramDecidedHealBeneficialFunny Stuff Author:Allen Klein
“In the beginning, passion and pain were not created together with the body; nor forgetfulness and ignorance together with the soul; nor the ever-changing impressions in the shape of events with the mind. All these things were brought about in man by his disobedience.” MenMindSoulGodBodyTruthPainTogetherPassionEventsIgnoranceShapesImpressionDisobedienceForgetfulness Author:Maximus the Confessor
“Whenever we experience an event, whether we're visiting the dentist or taking a dream vacation, our consciousness registers that experience internally on a spectrum with great pain at one end and extreme pleasure at the other. Once completed, the memory of that experience is tagged to either pain or pleasure, and it continues to exist in our bodymind.” EndsDreamPainMemoriesPleasureConsciousnessEventsExtremesVacationSpectrumVisitingRegisterDentistTagged Author:Deepak Chopra
“The Bible says that in the last days that it will be like labor pains. As a woman is ready to give birth, the labor pains get closer and closer together. That's what I think we are seeing that says we are in, maybe now, the last hours because the events are getting closer together.” ThinkingGivingPainTogetherLastsHoursSeeingEventsReadyBirthLaborLast Day Author:Greg Laurie