Suffering Quotes

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

There is a still center of the universe. Within that still center are all things, all achievements, all loses, everything and nothing exist there.

Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.

The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.

The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events will come and go, but the planes of light and nirvana will always be there.

Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

Outside of nirvana, the planes begin, the subtlest planes of light that vibrate fastest, all the way on down through the astral realms through the physical and so on.

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul.

Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.

We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point.

One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a place or a condition. It will be immortality reflecting through you. What will you do then?

When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience.

Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.

The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

You are going to die. Your physical body will disintegrate. You cannot help that.

You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.

The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's the body of knowledge of this world.

There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.

There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering.

Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.

Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to incarnate experience.

You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.

Nothing is here in this world that is of any interest at all.

Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and in doing so, they get all upset

A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness.

In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here.

You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.

People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

Hell is everything. Heaven is nothing.

At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.

When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe, you are not affected by suffering the way other people are.

There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my friend, who go away.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.