“The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.” InspirationalSelfSpiritCausesToo MuchBuddhismPureInfiniteUnhappinessTrapsRadiant Author:Frederick Lenz
“Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.” SpiritUnhappyUnhappinessLucifer Author:Christopher Marlowe
“The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?” KnowsMenHas BeensSoulFacesSpiritSufferingGrowthSecretGreatnessDisciplineEndureRuinsGrantedTensionMaskUnhappinessCunningFace To FaceInterpretingProfundityInventivenessEnhancement Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.” BodySpiritSinPovertyUnhappinessSubmission Book:The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17 Source: The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17
“Zen takes the opposite tack; it holds that true reality is the fundamental unity of mind and matter, inner spirit and external world. When life is viewed in such terms, there can be no success or failure, happiness or unhappiness; life is a whole, and you are simply part of it. There are no dualities, hence there is nothing to worry about. The result is perfect tranquility.” WorldMindMatterWholeRealitySuccessLife IsSpiritTermPerfectResultsWorryFailureOppositesFundamentalsUnityUnhappinessTranquilityDualityLife HappinessSuccess Or FailureMind And MatterTrue Reality Author:Tom Hoover