It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Consciousness is the glory of creation.
Consciousness is a disease.
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
It is the mind that makes the body.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.