Terry Tempest Williams Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Real, Dark, Light

• Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Inspirational, Two, Suffering

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.52, Vintage

• A friend of mine said to me not long ago, "Terry you are married to sorrow." I looked at him and said, "No, I am not married to sorrow, I just choose not to look away." To not avert our eyes to suffering is to trust the power of presence. Joy emerges through suffering. Suffering is a component of joy. Whether we are sitting with a loved one dying or witnessing dolphins side-by-side watching the oil burning in the Gulf of Mexico, to be present with the world is to be alive. I think of Rilke once again, "Beauty is the beginning of terror." We can breathe our way toward courage.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Eye, Thinking, Long

• I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the delicacy of our relations. It is this tenderness born out of a connection to place that fuels my writing. Writing becomes an act of compassion toward life, the life we so often refuse to see because if we look too closely or feel too deeply, there may be no end to our suffering. But words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Moving, Writing

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.55, Vintage

• Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Moving, Empowering, Suffering

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.55, Vintage

• Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Suffering, Dying, Doe

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.53, Vintage

• The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Joy, Making Love

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