One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had an easy life, and had not had the privilege of tasting the joys of jail and all it means." ~ Badsha Khan, quote in Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, p. 87
Eknath EaswaranTags: suffering
Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.
Eknath EaswaranHuman is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul.
Santosh KalwarTags: soul mind suffering human enlightened
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
Roland BarthesTags: loss death suffering mourning grief
When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.
Noah CiceroTags: pain suffering existentialism screaming
Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)
Donald RothbergTags: suffering
Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.
Santosh KalwarTags: life journey suffering defeat stop attainable other-side
It is easy to tell the toiler
How best he can carry his pack
But no one can rate a burden's weight
Until it has been on his back
Tags: advice suffering sympathy pride burden
Really, doesn´t everything make sense? There are, of course, things from which we more or less recover, although some of them are too harsh even for saints. But that is no reason to accuse God. Even if there are reasons to doubt him, the fact that he did not arrange the world like a well-ordered parlor is not one of them. It speaks rather in his favor. This used to be much better understood.
Ernst JüngerTags: god suffering ernst-jünger
Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: inspirational christianity humility suffering spirituality eastern-orthodoxy
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