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“I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it.”

Thinking Knows States Able Pain Wonderful Awareness Buddhism Sexuality Limitation I've Learned Testing Wonderful Places

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life are each doorways to awareness. Each offers you an opportunity to see beyond the illusion that serves as the balancing and growth of your soul.”

Soul Pain Suffering Opportunity Growth Awareness Loneliness Offers Illusion Addiction Your Soul Encounters Seeming Disappointing Doorways Pitfalls Distressing

Author:Gary Zukav

“The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.”

Pain Awareness Suicide Instance Anguish Prevention Unimaginable

Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

“Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused.”

Feels Mind Body Pain Awareness Focused Severe Mind And Body Severe Pain

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers the whole spectrum of sedative drugs.”

Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

“I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.”

Thinking Ideas Soul Pain Suffering Turns Passion Awareness Capacity Relation My Soul No Idea Mutual Faculty Sensations My Thoughts My Passion Sensory

Author:Nicolas Malebranche

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.”

Ifs Way Pain Suffering Enjoy Awareness Buddhism Draws Fortune Slave Endless Pleasant Misfortunes Rise Above

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I believe everyday your life speaks to you - through every experience, through the people you meet, and even through pain, fear and self-doubt.”

People Believe Self Pain Speak I Believe Doubt Awareness Everyday Self-doubt

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I don't care whether it was once sacred or not, I HATE WHAT I DO. It's destroying my soul, making me lose touch with myself, teaching me that pain is a reward, that money buys everything and justifies everything.”

Soul Care Pain Hate Loses Teaching Awareness I Hate Sacred Rewards Don't Care My Soul I Don't Care Justify Destroying

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.”

“Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.”

Life Pain Success Grace Awareness Difficulty Absence Hesitation Incongruity

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“It is difficult to explain to children in the "overdeveloped" nations that not all children in the world have such beautiful and nourishing food. Awareness of this fact alone can help us overcome many of our own psychological pains. Eventually our contemplation can help us see how to assist those who need our help so much.”

World Needs Children Facts Helping Pain Beautiful Nations Peace Difficult Awareness Overcoming Psychological Contemplation Psychological Pain

Author:Nhat Hanh

“We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.”

Wells Soul Pain Joy Grief Attention Awareness Sorrow Laughter Silly Pay Attention Frightening Expanding Enlightening Soul Work

Author:Matthew Fox