It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.
Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.
What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.
Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.
The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.
When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.
Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.
Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.
We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.
I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.
If you argue against reality you will suffer.
I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.
The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.
I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.
The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind.
An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.
