3,815 Quotes About Suffering
- Author Ahmed Zaki Yamani
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A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this.
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- Author Ajahn Chah
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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- Author Ajahn Sumedho
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We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.
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- Author Ajahn Chah
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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- Author Ajahn Chah
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If we see suffering then we don't have suffering.
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- Author Ajahn Chah
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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- Author Ajahn Chah
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper, we see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there's nothing more to it. We leave it be. The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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- Author Ajahn Chah
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Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If
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- Author Ajahn Chah
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We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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