Suffering is an idea that there is an ‘I’ that doesn’t like what is happening.
-Jac O’Keeffe
Tag: Suffering
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet…
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
—Helen Keller
Difference Between Pain and Suffering
There is a Buddhist teaching that says that when you get hurt, say, by an arrow, that is pain. The arrow hitting your arm, it hurts. Pain. However, there is a second arrow, which is your reaction to the arrow, the getting angry, the planning revenge, that is beyond pain, that is suffering.
Resistance creates suffering
It may look as if the situation is creating suffering, but ultimately this is not so – your resistance is.
Eckhart Tolle