Suffering Quotes - Page 161

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings just in order to exist. Some beings also like to cause others to needlessly suffer, just out of pure maliciousness

Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.

At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.

If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out. There are no happy endings. All accomplishments are washed away by death or by the next moment.

The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's the body of knowledge of this world.

You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.

You are going to die. Your physical body will disintegrate. You cannot help that.

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.

When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.

One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a place or a condition. It will be immortality reflecting through you. What will you do then?

We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point.

Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.

Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul.

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

Outside of nirvana, the planes begin, the subtlest planes of light that vibrate fastest, all the way on down through the astral realms through the physical and so on.