People often ask: If there’s a God, how can He allow so much suffering in the world? Realize all world suffering you perceive is a mirror to your own psychological self-abuse, gender imbalance, prejudice, poverty, and hunger. You couldn’t even perceive each suffering aspect of external reality if it didn’t already exist within you. Touch and transmute your own psychological suffering, and perceive the world in kind.
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Related Confidence comes from within. You teach people how to perceive you, by your own example of how you p... LINDSEY RIETZSCH Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to le... THICH NHAT HANH The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a ... MICHAEL LEBEUF In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and ... AL-GHAZALI The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It... JOHN CONNOLLY There is no reality only realization of how we perceive the world within our minds. ANDONI GARCIA In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem a... WALTER KAUFMANN We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality BRYAN SINGER But we all suffer. For we all prize and love; and in this present existence of ours, prizing and lov... NICHOLAS WOLTERSTORFF Don’t throw away your suffering. Touch your suffering. Face it directly, and your joy will become ... THICH NHAT HANH How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless mill... EDWIN WAY TEALE How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless mill... EDWIN WAY TEALE Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It’s like praising Satan... E.A. BUCCHIANERI Man is not suffering by external forces as much as his own dysfunctional mind and self inflicted neg... ADITYA AJMERA In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything ha... AL-MAYASSA BINT HAMAD BIN KHALIFA AL-THANI If your house smells good, people perceive you as a good person. If there is a bad smell, people may... ALAN R. HIRSCH When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can creat... BEN OKRI It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicte... ARTHUR HELPS It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicte... ARTHUR HELPS You control your own destiny. Never let anyone put you in a box and say 'This is your space'; You ha... MICHELLE GEANEY Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to wh... DAN MILLMAN Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to wh... DAN MILLMAN We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality. BRYAN SINGER Your greatest attribute, that which allows you to accomplish most in life and the most treasured asp... 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HENRI NOUWEN A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows... DEBBIE FORD Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your... KHALED HOSSEINI No matter how much you are suffering, learn to appreciate life because the probability that you exis... HAMBELELA ANYOLO Everything you perceive is your presence. Today, look deeply into every moment and perceive divine p... ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS You can only become the observer of life, if you can perceive the world with the mind and not with t... ROSHAN SHARMA If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associ... JAMES ALLEN For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have... PAUL FARMER Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many... WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see b... TOM ROBBINS I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wis... ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wis... JOSEPH ADDISON I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wis... ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH If everyone only gave a fraction of the compassion their hearts are capable of giving... how much su... ALFA HOLDEN Too much reason limits man to the physical world and blinds his imagination to the greater things th... JOHN KRAMER The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. WILLIAM FAULKNER If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ine... VIKTOR E. FRANKL We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, ... NELSON MANDELA It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tel... SHARON SALZBERG what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is h... MARK TWAIN Self worth is how you perceive yourself, how you talk about yourself, and how you represent yourself... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering... JOHN DESMOND BERNAL Think about this. Your reality is whatever you react to. If you don't react either positively or neg... AKIROQ BROST Everything you perceive, externally, is the manifestation of some internal part of you. If it was no... TONY WARRICK This is Lance's world and we're squirrels just trying to get a nut. If he comes here ready to play, ... BOBBY JULICH Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. ... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world. PATANJALI Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It i... TED DEKKER You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create ... CEELO GREEN If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering. KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suff... SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go... JOHN CLAYTON Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is be... EDWARD JUDSON You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed wi... THOMAS TRAHERNE Humans suffering from a multitude of fears, insecurities and wanting to believe there’s something ... BOBBY W. MILLER Africa was full of people in need of help and there had to be a limit. You simply could not help eve... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Some people think life is all about suffering, and suffering means living life. So many people live ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he esca... BUDDHA What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it n... ALICIA KEYS Your heart always know the reason for your suffering. Take immediate action to stop you from sufferi... ARVIND MEHTA A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ROBERT LYND It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering ROBERT LYND Your reality is as you perceive it to be. So, it is true, that by altering this perception we can al... WILIAM CONSTANTINE All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. HELEN KELLER The impeccable watchmaker geared the noble self to suffer. The ineluctable part of being human is pe... KILROY J. OLDSTER The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But afte... THOMAS MERTON Your greatest attribute, that which allows you to accomplish most in life and the most treasured asp... CHRIS MATAKAS If the only use for your mind and soul is to create suffering, it would have been better if you didn... MARIANA FULGER When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry b... CHINUA ACHEBE Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering. ALPHONSE DAUDET The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As ... JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering. BYRON KATIE Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometim... DENNIS PRAGER You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do an... FRANZ KAFKA There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrib... JOHN O'DONOHUE If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong. JOHN PAUL WARREN I think both ways are ways to make the world a better place and to reduce the suffering. WILLIAM FLEESON Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world. AUNG SAN SUU KYI Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead ... OCTAVIA E. BUTLER Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana'... KURT COBAIN Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose... WALTER KAUFMANN In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own se... MAHAVIRA Sometimes I wonder how much of our suffering we allow or impose on ourselves simply in search of our... DARRELL CALKINS It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ROBERT STAUGHTON LYND In a world full of oddities, it’s how you outdo yourself within your own schizophrenia of abnormal... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own, ... Yo... CICERO Ever since that troublemaker Eve handed that gullible Adam the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Goo... MIRABAI STARR
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ALEXANDRA MILENOV We have no information. He is not in the tribunal. ALEXANDRA MILENOV We had pretty high hopes and there was a lot of pressure on us to take medals. It's difficult when y... ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER She has magic knees. I think it's a miracle she's already racing, and she did a good job. ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER She was really one of the girls I would have said would win a medal. ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER I had a good run, especially on the upper part of the course, but Michaela was just too strong. ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER It was really on the limit today. One of my teammates got hurt, but I don't think it was too dangero... ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER We all know everyone was not competing in the same conditions. ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER Today I had a lot of confidence. I took it pretty relaxed. I think it's priceless to start a season ... ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER Thinking about how much they sacrifice amazes me. 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ALEXANDRA JACOBS We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV--it was post-postmodern, ALEXANDRA JACOBS We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV. That seemed a little bit,... ALEXANDRA JACOBS We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV â€â�... ALEXANDRA JACOBS Boswell Wide Awake. ALEXANDRA DAY The children keep growing up on me. I have to keep getting new babies. ALEXANDRA DAY I was pretty sure when we made the first 'Carl' book that we had a good idea, but I couldn't have im... ALEXANDRA DAY especially if they involve activities which would probably be forbidden by the grown-ups in charge. ALEXANDRA DAY I don't think I've ever played in a golf tournament with so many people rooting against me. It's har... ALEXANDRA BODEMANN Winning, to be included with all those legends, would be a great honor. ALEXANDRA BODEMANN I've been in a slump, and to come back and win something like this is awesome. ALEXANDRA BODEMANN I would like to thank my new friend. She has taught me never to give up. ALEXANDRA BODEMANN I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick... ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the conce... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling. ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, m... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO Every mistake that you make, or every thing that you might regret, you don't need to necessarily... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. ... ALEXANDRA ROBBINS Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help t... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO When I have no appointments, I spend the day in pajamas and go to the dog park in pajamas. I'm v... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: in... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind - because if you can't trust your famil... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I loved doing Baywatch. It was so much fun! ALEXANDRA PAUL