Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.
Interpretation
We often endure suffering quietly instead of confronting it, allowing it to control our lives.
This quote suggests that many people tend to be overly accommodating to their pain and suffering, avoiding direct confrontation with it. Instead of addressing and overcoming these challenges, they let suffering take the lead in their lives, which may prevent them from living fully and joyfully.
In practice
In a discussion about mental health awareness, this quote can emphasize the importance of addressing suffering rather than ignoring it.
To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you’re going or backward at where you’ve been. When you do stop, there’s a sense of going nowhere. There’s a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are.
The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.
There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.
It is not about how much you give, it is about how much you can let go with your mind.
It is all up to us. We are the ones who have to keep looking at our thoughts, looking for the nature of our mind. there is nobody else in control of our lives, our experiences, our freedom or our bondage.
There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.
Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.
Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.
Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.
Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.
Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?
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