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"If you don't accept and respect your suffering, it isn't going anywhere."
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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."

"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."

"Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that."

"After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped."

"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."

"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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"Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself."

"If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief."

"We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone."

"It is a responsibility for those that see and have understanding, and choose to not be bridled by fear, to step forward and lead the way."

"The most dangerous negativity comes from ourselves in the form of doubts, fears and unreasonable self-criticisms."

"Everything in life will attack you if it senses your fear; animals, people - but faithful confidence wards off all manner of evil."

"I am hopeful because love overflows from my heart. Gratitude for beauty and life leads my way."
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