Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.
With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
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.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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