People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.
We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.