Quotes by Suffering As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form. Frederick Lenz painsufferinglong Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life. Frederick Lenz sufferingdogpeople Nothing is here in this world that is of any interest at all. Frederick Lenz this-worldsufferingworld Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and in doing so, they get all upset Frederick Lenz upsetsufferinglittles A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness. Frederick Lenz emotionsufferingdesire In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. Frederick Lenz losessufferinglifetime The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again. Frederick Lenz sufferingmissingopportunity You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere. Frederick Lenz diversityglassessuffering ... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong. George Eliot motivemoralitysuffering We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait Frederick Lenz sufferingwaitingdesire People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way Frederick Lenz tiredsufferingpeople Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer. Frederick Lenz enlightenmentsufferingfirsts Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of your body as you age, by the all-encompassing death that swallows up everything and everyone in this world. Frederick Lenz painsufferingage Hell is everything. Heaven is nothing. Frederick Lenz hellsufferingheaven Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both. Grace Slick sufferinglosslittles 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. Frederick Lenz purposeignorancesuffering 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. Frederick Lenz dimensionsignorancesuffering The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter into, the less suffering there is. Frederick Lenz reincarnationsufferingmind When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe, you are not affected by suffering the way other people are. Frederick Lenz sufferingmindpeople How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that which is beyond them all, the invisible, be extinction? Extinction? The extinction of what, of whom? How can that which has never been be extinguished? Frederick Lenz enlightenmentbuddhismsuffering«7273747576777879808182»
