Pain is physical, but suffering is mental.
Outside of the mind there is no suffering.
Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer.
Suffering is entirely due to clinging or resisting;
it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.
Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1897 – 1981, Indian teacher of nondualism
Do not feel overwhelmed by the length of this journey.
All you ever need do is focus on one thing, what you are doing.
Stay on the path and put one foot in front of the other – that is all.
There is joy in the struggle.
It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.
Ram Dass
What is this message that wild animals bring, the message that seems to say everything and nothing? What is this message that is wordless, that is nothing more or less than the animals themselves- that the world is wild, that life is unpredictable in its goodness and its danger, that the world is larger than your imagination.
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting lost
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
Blaise Pascal
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