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"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief."
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"Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real."
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"Discharge [disposal of karma] is in nature's hands. That's why there is restlessness. That is why these are the pains of dependency [association]. There are such times man has to face that it becomes difficult for him to pass even one hour."
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"Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that."
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"She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . ."
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"After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped."
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"Suffering is an essential component of life. No person escapes suffering, which is indivisible from life itself. Suffering is what places in in contact with the self; it is what allows us to understand the spiritual nature behind our existence."
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"It was well said-by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think-that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone one's awareness of the exceedingly slow passage of time. I once had the experience of being 'waterboarded' and can now dimly appreciate how much every second counts in the experience of the torture victim, forced to go on enduring what is unendurable."
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"Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them."
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"How could I feel something when... I always get screw up... good people get killed and bad people just make suicides."
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"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."
Truth
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."
Family
"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
Power
"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."
Love
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Resilience
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
Truth
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
Life
"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
Generosity
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
Faith
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
Earth
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