In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
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.
Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.