Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.
When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.
Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.