#suffering

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#egotism #inspirational #sin #suffering #inspirational

Life is but a Weaving” (the Tapestry Poem) “My life is but a weaving Between my God and me. I cannot choose the colors He weaveth steadily. Oft’ times He weaveth sorrow; And I in foolish pride Forget He sees the upper And I the underside. Not ’til the loom is silent And the shuttles cease to fly Will God unroll the canvas And reveal the reason why. The dark threads are as needful In the weaver’s skillful hand As the threads of gold and silver In the pattern He has planned He knows, He loves, He cares; Nothing this truth can dim. He gives the very best to those Who leave the choice to Him. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#sorrow #suffering #life

As a fact, we cannot give suffering precedence in either our individual or collective lives. We have to get on with things, and those who give precedence to suffering will be left behind. They fetter us with their sniveling. We have someplace to go and must believe we can get there, wherever that may be. And to conceive that there is a 'brotherhood of suffering between everything alive' would disable us from getting anywhere. We are preoccupied with the good life, and step by step are working toward a better life. What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next — as if we were playing a board game we think will never end, despite the fact that it will, like it or not. And if you are too conscious of not liking it, then you may conceive of yourself as a biological paradox that cannot live with its consciousness and cannot live without it. And in so living and not living, you take your place with the undead and the human puppet. ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

#depression #progress #suffering #life

It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering. ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#knowledge #love #suffering #wisdom #love

Every man or woman who loves [God], they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He Is, and in this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. Even the joy of serving Him is a bitter joy. ↗

— Stephen King

#hate #love #pain #religion #suffering

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#form #our #sufferings

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother. ↗

— Bernard Lagat

#i #lack #mother #obviously #sleep

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#bonds #closer #common #ever #far

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#also #become #first #first step #follows

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. ↗

— George Orwell

#balance #fair #foolish #fun #get