Spiritual Quotes on Suffering

• The mind that is seeking pleasure in any form is inviting sorrow.  - J Krishnamurti
   
• Jealousy and most all of your sufferings
  Are from believing
  You know better than God. - Hafiz
   
• You would like to live a life where there is no suffering, but that life is not possible if you continuously carry the ego with you. You cannot make a life around you so that suffering disappears. If you carry the ego, again and again you will bump into some reality which will hurt the unreal. Whenever there is an encounter between reality and unreality, the unreal causes suffering. - Osho
   
• He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer. - Ramana Maharshi
   
• To end sorrow is to face the fact of one's loneliness, one's attachment, one's petty little demand for fame, one's hunger to be loved; it is to be free of self-concern and the puerility of self-pity. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
   
• Realising that suffering arises from nothing other than thinking, dropping all desires one rids oneself of it and is happy and at peace everywhere. - Astavakra Gita
   
• Life cannot grow without challenges; and pains, miseries, sufferings bring challenges. You cannot become aware without suffering. Suffering evokes awareness in you. - Osho
   
• Pain or pleasure is the result of past Karma and not of the present Karma. Pain and pleasure alternate with each other. One must suffer or enjoy them patiently without being carried away by them. One must always try to hold on to the Self. When one is active one should not care for the results and must not be swayed by the pain or pleasure met with occasionally. He who is indifferent to pain or pleasure can alone be happy. - Ramana Maharshi
   
• Use every opportunity in life for raising your intelligence, your consciousness. Ordinarily what we are doing is using every opportunity to create a hell for ourselves. Only you suffer, and because of your suffering, you make others suffer. And when so many people are living together, and if they all create suffering for each other, it goes on multiplying. That’s how the whole world has become a hell. It can be instantly changed. Just the basic thing has to be understood, that without intelligence there is no heaven. - Osho
   
• The world is not external. Because you identify yourself wrongly with the body you see the world outside, and its pain becomes apparent to you. But they are not real. Seek the reality and get rid of this unreal feeling. - Ramana Maharshi
   
• Knowledge does not end sorrow. The ending of sorrow begins with the facing of psychological facts within oneself and being totally aware of all the implications of those facts from moment to moment. This means never escaping from the fact that one is in sorrow, never rationalizing it, never offering an opinion about it, but living with that fact completely. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
   
• The individual suffers because he perceives duality.
  Find the One everywhere and in everything
  and there will be an end to pain and suffering. - Ananandamayi Ma
   
• That bliss of the Self is always with you, and you will find it for yourself, if you would seek it earnestly. The cause of your misery is not in the life outside you, it is in you as the ego. You impose limitations on yourself and then make a vain struggle to transcend them. - Ramana Maharshi
   
• When a person living in a temporary material body tries to construct a happy home, the result is fruitless and miserable. - Uddhava Gita
   
• Whatsoever you have, somebody will always be having more than that -- it is a big world. Hence jealousy, and jealousy is the fever of the soul. Except meditation, there is no medicine for it. The physician can help you if your body is suffering from a fever, but only a master can help you, a buddha can help you, if you are suffering from the fever of the soul. Very few people are suffering from the physical fever, and almost everybody is suffering from the spiritual fever -- jealousy. - Osho