Tag: Suffering

On Overcoming Fear of Life’s Suffering

I am not now heaping up these illustrations for the purpose of exercising my wit, but for the purpose of encouraging you to face that which is thought to be most terrible.

Simon Drew September 28, 2023

On Premature Suffering (P1)

Let us, then, look carefully into the matter. It is likely that some troubles will befall us; but it is not a present fact.

Simon Drew September 28, 2023

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

"If the way is not seeking always better ways, it is not the way."

"Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars."

"What is linear is not history but the human spirit."

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

"Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day."

"If I had not been admitted to these studies it would not have been worth while to have been born."

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"Beauty is always worth it."

"It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

"The Soul that would be touched by beauty must sometimes walk alone."

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in moving towards what will be."

Tag: Suffering

On Overcoming Fear of Life’s Suffering

On Premature Suffering (P1)

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