“In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.” IfsWorldMayEnoughMightPainSufferingHurtComfortableDistanceConvenientContagious Book:Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart Source: Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart
“Only real love of the infinite will motivate you. While pain motivates, once we feel comfortable and the pain has stopped, we'll stop evolving. Love is a far superior spiritual vehicle.” FeelsRealPainSpiritualLove IsComfortableYogaInfiniteSuperiorsEvolveVehicleReal LoveBhakti Yoga Author:Frederick Lenz
“If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.” IfsPainLife IsSufferingBitsPleasureComfortableYogaKarmaSensesRealmsKarma Yoga Author:Frederick Lenz
“People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.” PeopleNeedsHumansPainHuman BeingsComfortableSurvivalInstinctCertaintySurvival Instinct Author:Tony Robbins
“Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs, of course it make us sedentary. We take years off our lives probably by sitting in chairs, but we like them because they're comfortable. You go to an African village, you find me a chair with a back. That's a rare thing out there.” GivingYearsProblemPainCoursesStudyOur LivesPaperComfortableSittingWeakHipsTherapyInjuryChairsVillageFind MeSedentaryRare ThingsSitting In A Chair Author:Daniel Lieberman
“When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.” TryingMindEnoughBodyPainMovingPleasureFocusComfortableSecureGrasping Author:Byron Katie
“There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. We can see in our own lives that the latter form of happiness is superior because when our mental state is calm and happy, we can easily put up with minor pains and physical discomforts. On the other hand, when our mind is restless and upset, the most comfortable physical facilities do not make us happy.” MindKindTwoStatesHandsPainFormPleasureResultsMaterialsDevelopmentComfortComfortableTransformationEndureCalmHappySuperiorsUpsetLatterTemporaryMinorsBeing HappyRestlessDiscomfortFacilityThoroughSpiritual Transformation Author:Dalai Lama
“Every time, I reaffirm in myself that the more comfortable you are, the less you are creating. You have to feel a little bit of pain in the creation.” FeelsLittlesPainBitsCreationComfortableCreatingLittle Bit Author:Antonio Banderas