Quotes by Suffering When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper, we see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there's nothing more to it. We leave it be. The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound. Ajahn Chah meditation suffering thinking If we see suffering then we don't have suffering. Ajahn Chah ifs suffering If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer Ajahn Chah certainty uncertain suffering We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering. Ajahn Chah ends suffering heaven Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it. Ajahn Chah suffering mind letters Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer. Ajahn Chah bodhisattva ifs suffering We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable. Ajahn Sumedho suffering trying looks The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets. Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it. Akbar Ganji suffering faces class We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani unemployment suffering country Without hope of reward Akkineni Nagarjuna rewards suffering bears In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else. Al-Ghazali affliction sorrow suffering We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth. Al Gore environmental eugenics suffering I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago. Al Jarreau suffering want long The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers. Al Pacino emotional athlete suffering Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death. Ala Bashir everyday suffering people We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think. Alain de Botton pain suffering thinking Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. Alain de Botton malice behaviour suffering Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same. Alain de Botton disease suffering love-is One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully. Alain de Botton important suffering art Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it. But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’ Alan Alda abnormal suffering men «1234567891011»