A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.
Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick.
Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.
Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.
Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy
There's always been physical suffering in comedy.
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't. So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.
There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.
For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.
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