Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger ways that force one to reckon with one's own life.
I don't look at myself as suffering.
The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.