Suffering Archives - Spiritual Quotes https://spiritual-quotes.org/tag/suffering/ Quotes for Any Occasion Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:09:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 The root of all misery https://spiritual-quotes.org/happiness/the-root-of-all-misery/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 08:51:22 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=1094 It is not the world but attachment to it which is the root of all misery. – Swami Nityaswarupananda

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]]> It is not the world but attachment to it which is the root of all misery.

– Swami Nityaswarupananda

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]]> Happiness is not a reward https://spiritual-quotes.org/happiness/happiness-reward/ Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:02:07 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=780 Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.

– Robert Green Ingersoll

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]]> Overcome any bitterness https://spiritual-quotes.org/wise-words/overcome-bitterness/ Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:30:05 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=689 Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it […]

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]]> Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you.

Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity.

– Pir Vilayat Khan

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]]> Revenge on ourselves https://spiritual-quotes.org/wise-words/revenge/ Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:07:51 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=655 To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. – Pope

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]]> To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

– Pope

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]]> A little man within https://spiritual-quotes.org/happiness/a-little-man-within/ Thu, 01 Aug 2013 11:30:58 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=483 What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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– Ludwig Wittgenstein

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]]> Nobody can hurt me https://spiritual-quotes.org/wise-words/nobody-can-hurt-me/ Sun, 07 Jul 2013 15:02:22 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=403 Nobody can hurt me without my permission. – Gandhi

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– Gandhi

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]]> Carried by the wind https://spiritual-quotes.org/wise-words/carried-by-the-wind/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:31:38 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=379 The post Carried by the wind appeared first on Spiritual Quotes.

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]]> The folly is under control https://spiritual-quotes.org/enlightenment/the-folly-is-under-control/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:47:40 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=372 A man or woman of knowledge sweats and puffs like any ordinary person. Yet the folly of their life is under control. – Don Juan

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]]> A man or woman of knowledge sweats and puffs like any ordinary person.
Yet the folly of their life is under control.

– Don Juan

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]]> Terrible misfortunes https://spiritual-quotes.org/the-meaning-of-life/terrible-misfortunes/ Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:09:44 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=315 My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes – most of which never happened. – Mark Twain

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]]> My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes – most of which never happened.

– Mark Twain

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]]> To be onto something https://spiritual-quotes.org/spiritual-practice/to-be-onto-something/ Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:54:25 +0000 https://spiritual-quotes.org/?p=310 The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. – Walker Percy

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]]> The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

– Walker Percy

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