"Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from...
"Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner."
"To have a body is to suffer."
"Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way."
"Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain."
"All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions."
"…you have to learn to live without violence in such a violent world. It is difficult to live sanely in an insane world but that is the only life there is and one has to find one's way to live through it. All that we can do is to never become violent against violence,...
"A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering."
"From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values."
"Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering, the anxiety, the extraordinary sense of insoluble problems."