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Suffering and Acceptance

Lessons about loss, pain, struggle, suffering, guilt, revenge, overcoming, and acceptance.

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We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change.

— Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

Living well is the best revenge.

— George Herbert

As long as they are their mind, what they fear and resist most is their own awakening.

— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

If you take any action, drop the negativity first. Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity.

— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. You make yourself into a victim. Leave the situation or accept it.

— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

Nothing that is real is ever lost.

— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

Beginnings always hide themselves in ends.

— Mike Posner