Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
There is some suffering that awaits us all.
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
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 create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.
Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.
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