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“The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.”

Inspirational Moving Purpose Suffering Consciousness Opposites Painful Therapy Remove Polarity

Author:James Hollis

“The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened.”

Long Action Suffering Results Sun Benefits Opposites Harm Operations Heat Dry Mud Hardened Long Suffering

Author:Theodoret

“Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely equal to only those which we suffer them to enjoy.”

Said Government Suffering Enjoy Rights Equal Opposites Privilege Granted Inherent Snowden

Author:Edward Snowden

“Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.”

Doe Suffering Causes Opinion Opposites Possession Ownership Rapture

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”

Ends Law Suffering Found Natural Security Opposites Bases Seeking Minimum Maximum Perversion

Author:Walter M. Miller, Jr.

“Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.”

Desire Suffering Force Direct Opposites

Author:Anais Nin

“I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.”

Thinking Sometimes Reality Used Suffering Hate Given Easier Concepts Opposites Absolutes Embrace Complexes

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.”

Ifs Wells Heart Doe Facts Suffering Discipline Opposites Affair Believer Gods Will Manage Convince Suspects Submit Trusted Disappoint Unbelievers

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of evolution. Therefore I call this the principle of Dissolution.”

Firsts Science Suffering Order Brain Principles Special Movement Evolution Disease Opposites Etc Faculty Dissolution Nomenclature

Book:Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson: On Epilepsy and epileptiform convulsions

Source: Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson: On Epilepsy and epileptiform convulsions

“Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.”

Love Inspirational Giving Doe Suffering Causes Giving Up Opposites Ownership Don't Give Up Funny Relationship

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Suffering Grows Lord Virtue Successful Particular Promise Opposites Vices Temptation Grieving Look Up Being Successful Permit Tempted Invitations

Author:Philip Neri