Best ignorance & pain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.”

States Philosophy Body Pain Political Desire Fall Forget Pleasure Movement Ignorance Illusion Caught Frustration Caught Up Political Movements

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save you decades of time by bringing you the best.”

Want Trying Pain Poverty Ignorance Decades

Author:Tony Robbins

“A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.”

“You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.”

World Kind Stills Pain Form Language Ignorance Limits Overcoming Everyday Certainty Crucial Everyday Life Wretched Harshness Battering

Author:Gregory Benford

“And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.”

Believe Wells Soul Light Pain Fighting Left Rooms Ignorance Shapes Late Weight My Soul Awake Dull Too Late Subtle Pulling Blissful Ignorance

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't be the only one missing out or losing out. When you lack the courage to chase the Wild Goose, the opportunity costs are staggering. Who might not hear about the love of God if you don't seize the opportunity to tell them? Who might be stuck in poverty, stuck in ignorance, stuck in pain if you're not there to help free them? Where might the advance of God's kingdom in the world stall out because you weren't there on the front lines?”

“Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.”

Pain Joy Dies Ignorance Sorrow Bliss Illusory

Author:Sivananda

“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.”

Men Mind Soul God Body Truth Pain Together Passion Events Ignorance Shapes Impression Disobedience Forgetfulness

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.”

People Ifs Pain Ignorance Blind Uncertain Old People

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“We have compassion because of the incredible pain and suffering which we as unenlightened beings cause to ourselves and all others through our ignorance. This is why we're trying to get out. This is why the bodhisattva has meaning. Because we're saying, no we won't get out, we won't escape until we've helped all other beings to escape, but most other beings don't even want to escape. They don't even know that there is an escape, and it's hard, so it's going to take an awfully long time.”

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Author:Tenzin Palmo

“All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.”

People Life Pain Spiritual Suffering Ignorance Satisfaction Selfish Helping Others Pursuit Sentient Beings Compassion For Others Peace And Tolerance Selfishness And Greed Inflicting Pain

Author:Dalai Lama

“The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith.”

Reason Pain Religion Christ Religious Ignorance Eternity Notion Unhappy Absurd Observation Insanity Bliss Merit Dependence Everlasting Mixtures Refutation

Book:On The Gods and Other Essays

Source: On The Gods and Other Essays

“We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.”

May Use Pain Fall Force Nature Study Air Ignorance Dignity Sticks Tolerance Granted Intimacy Staring Harsh Knuckles

Book:The Illustrated West with the Night

Source: The Illustrated West with the Night

“I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.”

“In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.”

Pain Order Passion Conditions Ignorance Hungry Ignorant Duality

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the whole process of making war within ourselves and without, how it begins and how it ends. War’s roots are in ignorance. Without understanding we can easily become frightened by life’s fleeting changes, the inevitable losses, disappointments, the insecurity of our aging and death. Misunderstanding leads us to fight against life, running from pain or grasping at security and pleasures that by their nature can never be satisfying.”

“As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life.”

“All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.”

Men Pain Life Is Pleasure Ignorance Thousand Diversity Strive Striving For Happiness

Author:Meher Baba

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