Brenda Shoshanna Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Pain, Suffering, Add

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

• Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Love, Nature, Attachment

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

• We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Pain, Suffering, Belief

• When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Pain, Struggle, Suffering

• The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Pain, Reality, Suffering

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