“Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.” HappinessSpiritualSpiritualitySadnessDespairMiserySimplicityComplexityUnhappinessDesperationAnguishPhysicistGloom Author:Lester Levenson
“If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.” IfsSeemsSpiritualPerfectionMiseryImperfectionSeeming Author:Lester Levenson
“On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.” StillsSpiritualSpiritualityPathMiseryInsightFuelTransformedSpiritual Path Author:Anne Lamott
“Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of.” ThinkingWantHumansStatesSpiritualCoursesCausesHuman BeingsKnowingSecurityAbsolutesSafetyDistanceMiserySeekingConfusionFuelInsecurityNot Knowing Author:Adyashanti
“Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us; abundance for others.” DoeEnoughUseSpiritualMiseryEnvironmentalAbundanceBlessGood WorkStewardshipGod BlessAlleviate Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
“So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order is tied to an economic system which starves and mutilates the great majority of the population, and under such conditions its religion necessarily becomes a spiritual drug, administered for the purpose of subduing the popular discontent and relieving the popular misery.” WorldLongCountryWholeSpiritualPurposeOrderSocialCommunityPoorMoralEconomicConditionsThis WorldDrugFoundationMajorityMiseryPopulationTiedDiscontentEconomic SystemsSocial Order Author:Herbert Croly