All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
Edgar Allan Poe
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Korku öfkeye; öfke nefrete; nefret ise acıya yol açar.
Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.
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If suffering is inevitable, if our problems in life are unavoidable, then the question we should be asking is not “How do I stop suffering?” but “Why am I suffering—for what purpose?”
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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Chapter Three PRESENT
My body is in tatters, my mind is in shambles, but my heart, my heart is broken beyond repair. There’s this darkness growing inside me. It feeds off my pain and suffering, tarnishing my psyche, blackening my soul. Slowly, they’re breaking me, and they won’t be satisfied until I shatter.
omg. look at this part.
