The vagaries of life
though painful,
teach us not to cling
to this fleeting world.
~Ikkyu
Showing posts with label pain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pain. Show all posts
February 10, 2012
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it: and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~ Marcus Aurelius
October 07, 2011
You do not set the standard. You have not walked in my footsteps, danced in my shoes, or lived in my world. Do not judge me, point your fingers at me, or become experts on my life. Instead celebrate with me in times of joy and cry with me in times of pain. Only then will we begin to understand each other. ~ Kate Baker
June 21, 2011
To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ~ Unknown
June 08, 2011
I imagine the reason that people hold on to hatred so stubbornly is because if the hate is removed, the pain will set in. ~ James Baldwin
April 17, 2011
The Buddha didn't describe his awakening as an awakening to some absolute truth or absolute reality, perhaps comparable to God as we would find in other religious traditions. Instead, what he woke up to is the unfolding of the phenomenal world itself. This I think is what is so radical in the Buddha’s understanding of spiritual experience. It doesn’t have to do with gaining some privileged access to a higher truth that somehow transcends the messiness of everyday life. Rather, his awakening was an awakening to the flux and the flow, the pain, the beauty, the tragedy, and the joy of life itself. ~ Stephen Batchelor (from "Awakening to Life, Awakening to Death")
April 14, 2011
Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. Its about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater. ~ Nicholas Evans (from "The Horse Whisperer")
November 24, 2010
All I do is act on my passions and they call it sin.
All I do is tell the truth and they call me a hypocrite.
All I feel is pain and sorrow and they call it love.
All I do is pour my heart out to empty pages and they call it pretty.
~Benito Behar
All I do is tell the truth and they call me a hypocrite.
All I feel is pain and sorrow and they call it love.
All I do is pour my heart out to empty pages and they call it pretty.
~Benito Behar
September 06, 2010
I use the music as a tool. I don't write lyrics when I'm happy. I write them to ease pain. When I'm depressed, lonely, stressed -- that's when I reach for the lyric book. For me the music has always been where I go for that explosive catharsis. So, yes, its kind of limited in scope. But on the other hand, I don't ask a can of peaches to be a zebra either. ~ Henry Rollins (from NME UK, March 1997)
September 03, 2010
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. ~ James Baldwin
August 21, 2010
Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul; it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, and above. ~ Gia Carangi
June 18, 2010
Don't yield to the temptation of believing that the world can be fixed. Above all, don't yield to the hubris that you can fix it. Realize that your actions can, at best, make some conditions in the world a little more bearable, make suffering a little less painful. But just because this is all you can do, does not mean that you should not do it... do it in the face of all hopelessness. And why? Because to help, to be compassionate is your highest calling... if you can't do this, if you won't do this, then you are hopeless. ~ Dr. Stephen Hoeller
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