Suffering quotes by Sadhguru
Right now, what human beings are suffering is not their bondage, they are suffering their freedom. If you suffer your bondage, that is alright, but if you suffer your freedom that is a tragedy
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Once you have come as a human, you are not trapped anymore, other creatures are trapped in their own instincts, beyond that they cannot think, you have instincts for survival, but you have the possibility of going beyond instincts
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Human beings are not suffering their bondage, they are suffering their freedom
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Once there is a distance between you and your body, once there is a distance between you and your mind this is the end of suffering, this being cannot suffer any more; question of conflict doesn’t arise.
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Whether it’s education, marriage, work, career, business, whatever – all these things are extra fittings to our lives to make it better. You would want to add something which makes you more beautiful. But people cling to these add-ons so badly that the burden of carrying extra fittings all over the place becomes painful everything seems exploitative
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When you resist change, you resist the fundamental process of life & invariably you'll invite all kinds of suffering
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The fear of suffering makes your life a half step. Freedom from the fear of suffering is needed for a full-stride life
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How you are, should never be determined by how somebody else is. Once you allow that, you will remain a slave to somebody all your life because they will decide whether you'll be happy or unhappy.
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Is there some aspect of life that human beings are not suffering? If they are poor they suffer their poverty. You make them affluent they suffer that. If they are uneducated they suffer that. If you make them educated they suffer that. If they are unmarried they suffer that. You get them married.. If they don’t have children they suffer that. If they
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you are suffering every aspect of life, it does not mean there is something wrong with life, it just means you are only half alive to life; only one part of you is alive, the other part is yet to become alive. Being half alive is always torturous. It doesn’t matter where you are, in what kind of situation you are, if you are half alive it is torturous
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How many varieties of suffering human beings have invented for themselves is absolutely incredible. Actually you could find employment in hell, because if you are so good at torturing yourself, you could be very good at torturing other people.
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Life Quotes
Enormous potential and possibilities are destroyed in your life by the fear of suffering
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People who have failed in their lives are suffering their failure. People who have succeeded in their life are suffering their success. If you suffer your failure, it is okay, if you start suffering your success, that is the real tragedy of life.
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the moment unwillingness comes, even if the most beautiful thing is happening to you, it feels like you are being buggered by life. You are unwilling, but we will push you into heaven - you will suffer.
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People are capable of suffering just about anything- this is the nature of the intellect. Once you’re into the intellect, this is how life is. If you’re below the intellect, you won’t suffer so much. if you’re above the intellect, you’re a Buddha. If you’re below the intellect, maybe we can call you Buddhu
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Only if you have no fear of suffering will you dare to walk your life full stride
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Mental suffering essentially comes from a loss of perspective as to what life is all about.
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Life is neither suffering nor is it joy - you can make it whatever you want.
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Suffering happens essentially because most human beings have lost perspective as to what this life is about. Their psychological process has become far larger than the existential process
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Any sensitive human being is bound to be wounded when he knows only the dualities of life; when he does not know the other dimension.
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The fear is simply because you are not living with life, you are living in your mind. Your fear is always about what's going to happen next. It is always about that which does not exist. It is 100% imaginary. If you are suffering the non-existential we call that insanity
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It is extremely important that successful people send a clear message that success is a beautiful thing, it is not a suffering, it is not a miserable thing to do in your life
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Don't carry the experience of life as a wound – let it become wisdom. The harder life's been on you, the sooner you should become wise
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Adultery is not worthwhile. Is it right or wrong? Who am I to pass a judgment on anything about life? but it is stupid & limited to do anything which causes suffering to yourself. It is stupid & senseless to give into something which seems to be everything today & tomorrow will make you feel foolish
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Most people have no clue why they are suffering – because they experience life in terms of ‘me’ versus ‘the universe’. This means they are in constant conflict with creation, forgetting that they are just a small product of creation itself
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If there is no inclusiveness, there is no organic unity to life. This lack of organic unity causes endless suffering
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Once you sit here and your experience of life is such that... there is a little space between you and your body, between you and your mind, this is the end of suffering
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Only because of duality there is you and me. Only because of duality, the whole game of life is happening... It has brought life to you... At the same time, the same dualities are mauling you, subjecting you to so much pain and suffering.
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Short Quotes
If ignorance doesn't bring suffering to you, why would you seek enlightenment?
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Entering the spiritual path means you have become conscious of your suffering
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Suffering is not showered upon us, it is manufactured. And the manufacturing unit is in your mind
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Once you transcend the fear of suffering, you will naturally explore life to the fullest
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More people in the world are suffering from indigestion than of hunger. Unfortunately, that's the reality.
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No one can achieve wellbeing through someone else’s suffering.Short One liners Compassion Well being
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As you distance yourself from the body and mind, this is the end of all suffering
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I can create easy situation for you, or difficult situation for you. But suffering is your choice
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External circumstances can only cause you physical pain. Suffering is created in your mind.
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Whether you are suffering or enjoying people around you, it is your karma
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we have come to wrong conclusions about those suffering from HIV/AIDS, an environment has been created in this society, to act against human nature, thereby destroying the basic humanity in us
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Generally, successful people are becoming miserable. We are sending out a message: 'Success is suffering.' That's dangerous
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As a human being, you know suffering not because creation gave the suffering to you. Creation just gave you the freedom to make whatever you wish to out of yourself
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Misery is caused by you because you are unconscious of what you are doing, because your body and mind are not in your control, that is why you are causing misery.
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Very few people transcend out of their intelligence, most people have to be thrashed by life; only then they will transcend
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Freedom is a Benediction if you are aware, Freedom is a curse if you are unaware. Humanity is suffering the Freedom, not Bondage, there is a way out of Bondage, there is no way out of Freedom.
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With your actions, if you are turning yourself against yourself, because you do things senselessly & you are not doing things by choice simply because you have given in to a certain aspect of your body or emotion or something, then definitely you will bring suffering to yourself
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If you're suffering anything which does not exist, it amounts to insanity, isn't it? People are always suffering either what happened yesterday or what may happen tomorrow. So your suffering is always about that which does not exist
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People are capable of suffering just about anything in the world, If you’re not educated, you will suffer that. If you get educated, you suffer that. If you don’t find a job, you’ll suffer that. If you find a job, you suffer that. If you’re not married, you’ll suffer that. If you get married, you suffer that. If you don’t have children, you
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To avoid suffering, people are inventing many ways to go below the intellect. Excessive eating, alcohol, excessive indulgence in physical pleasures.. you’re trying to avoid the torment of the intellect for some time, but then life will catch up with you with more intensity. The only way out for this is to evolve beyond the intellect.
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People are suffering their thoughts immensely, because they do not know how to keep it pleasant, nothing has been done towards it. So, what is a possibility always becomes a problem if you do not explore it in the right perspective.Perspective Problems Thought Possibility
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Every step has become half a step for a large part of humanity because the fear of suffering has crippled them. Let it be a full stride always.
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We are the only creature on the planet which has the freedom to shape its own life. It's this freedom which human beings are suffering. If one is suffering bondages then it's not a problem. If one is suffering freedom then it's a disaster
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People suffer what happened ten years ago, and they suffer what may happen the day after tomorrow already.
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The only reason why you cause suffering to yourself and to anyone around you is because you are unaware
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Two greatest faculties that human beings have are- A fantastic & vivid memory and an absolutely wonderful imagination, these only a human being has, (but unfortunately) you (have) started suffering them. So what you are saying is- evolution has made a mistake
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Your suffering is always about that which does not exist.. If you were rooted in reality, there would be no fear
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The moment you romanticize suffering, it's very clear you are not interested in human wellbeing - you like drama
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Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering.
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If we are in tune with the fundamental laws of nature, we will enjoy the process of life. Otherwise, suffering is inevitable
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When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable. Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of your body and mind.Freedom Mind Meditation Body-mind
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If you are keen on doing something about human suffering, attend to yourself first, and also to people around you. That is the best way to start
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You have made your petty creation (psychological process) far more important than the Creator's creation. That is the fundamental source of all suffering
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All the suffering you go through is manufactured in your mind, isn't it so? If you distance yourself from the mind, can there be suffering in you? This is the end of suffering.
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If our humanity is functional, when someone is suffering, we spontaneously feel that we ought to do something about it. No one has to teach this to us
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If your mind listens to you, you will have no suffering inside. The suffering will only be in your body. We can do something about the suffering in your body with medicine or other means
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People are not serious about (world) peace, except those who are really hit by its absence
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You don't see other creatures of the planet suffering like human beings. Their suffering is purely physical. If they are physically harmed, they are in pain. Even in pain, the do not know the kind of suffering that a human being knows
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The level of suffering of people who have comfort and well-being is much deeper than of those people who are not eating properly. Suffering is not necessarily always in proportion to one's physical deprivation
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By asking "whether it is the Creator's mistake that so many people are suffering", you're trying to insulate yourself against other people's suffering, there is something in you that is connected to everything in the existence. If you make that active in whichever way possible, that something in you won't let you keep quiet.
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Why does your compassion only go out to human beings, and not to other creatures as well? Do you think that they are lesser forms of life than you? If so, you're too identified with your own form
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Human beings are capable of suffering just about anything. If there is some physical reason, at least they have a good excuse. Otherwise, they will simply suffer for nothing.
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People are capable of suffering just about anything. If you send them to heaven they will suffer because they will miss hell.
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It's always better to handle things around you, rather than trying to handle things somewhere else, because then, you'll just dissipate your energies. You'll waste your life talking about it; not doing anything about it.
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If anything happens that you think should not happen, you will suffer. You want the whole existence to happen the way you think it should, it will never be so
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Once this mind starts working for you, once you are blissful by your own nature, there is no more fear of suffering, your mind will become a fantastic instrument of wellbeing
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If just one percent of the population stands up, in a really committed way, to alleviate human suffering, at least the physical suffering in this existence could be just wiped out, The whole 100 percent need not stand up. Just one percent
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Ignorance is not a solution nor is it a bliss. Ignorance protects you from suffering a few things but suffering will accumulate and come to you in large scale at some point.
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When you are in pursuit of happiness, you are in some way causing suffering to others all the time.
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If I give you a sharp knife, if you hold it on the wrong end, if you hold it the
harder, more you hold it, it hurts more. That's all you are suffering- your own intelligence.
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When a person suffers, it is natural for another person to be sensitive to his suffering. This much sensitivity and this much humanity exists in everyone. But we have put our sensitivity and our humanity out of action
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A mentally retarded person never suffers, it is other people's attitude towards him which makes him suffer
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One who is above his intellect is a Buddha. Once you’re above the intellectual process, suffering is finished in your life because all suffering is manufactured there in your logical mind. when you’re stuck in your intellect you’re a nonstop suffering human being. Wherever you’re put you have a way of creating some kind of suffering
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Just to earn a living, to reproduce if you wish, and to die one day- Just to do this simple act that every worm, insect, bird, animal is doing effortlessly how much nonsense human beings are creating around themselves! How much suffering
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Your petty creation has become larger than the Creator’s creation. You lost perspective of life. That is the fundamental basis of all this confusion and suffering. If you see who you are, the micro speck that you are, you wouldn’t imagine that God is made in your own image and he looks like you and whatever
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When there is prejudice and resentment in you, it will make you suffer more than physical disease or injury
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Once you experientially know that you are not the body and not the mind, there is no possibility of suffering for youExperience Body-mind Spiritual science
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Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering
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Whatever happens to you, you can either treat it as a curse and suffer it or see it as a blessing and make use of it
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Most suffering is self-created. You can learn to make your body and your mind work for you, not against you.
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Physical suffering can be causing from outside, but 90% of human suffering is mental, it is caused from within ourselves, We are causing suffering to ourselves because we don't know what we are doing.
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When suffering happens in large doses around us, it's a test to see if our humanity is active or frozen
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Love is not a suffering. If you have love for someone or something, when they are with you, you can enjoy their presence, and when they are not with you, you can enjoy their absence. What you are doing in the name of love is just longing to become one with somebody
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Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma
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When you laugh, your shell breaks to some extent. It forms again but at least it opens up at that moment. If it does not open up at all, your brain causes more trouble than cancer ever can
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If understanding is karma, not understanding is also karma. If we understand something, there is a benefit, and if we do not understand something, there is suffering. Both are karma.
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Meditation means our mind should behave according to our wishes. When your mind listens to you, then you will not create needless suffering, anxiety and fear.
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The suffering that is outside is enough. The suffering that is in your body is enough. Where is the need to create suffering in your mind too?
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When suffering comes to people, some attain maturity because of it. They cultivate qualities like love and compassion within themselves. They will grow into better human beings. But some other people become filled with hatred, anger, and a needless feeling of guilt. They make themselves miserable and become bitter and negative.
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(If you are willing) You can make your mind into an instrument that takes you towards joy and ecstasy instead of suffering.
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No one can achieve well-being through someone else's suffering. Even if there is a temporary benefit, you will pay for it
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The root of all your suffering is just this: nobody should even trample on your idea, thought, emotion & personality
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The essence of ignorance/ pain/ misery/ suffering is that you believe yourself to be something that you are not. This is the essence of the chattering mind
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Almost 90% of the people in this world die with some disturbance, suffering and struggle. Very few people die peacefully and even fewer people die joyfully and extremely few people die blissfully
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Your suffering is always about that which does not exist, simply because you're not rooted in reality, you're always rooted in your mind. Mind is one part- memory, another part- imagination. You're lost in your imagination, that's the basis of your fear.
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Whether somebody is successful or a failure, rich or poor or whatever, if you just take off their top layer and look at them, they have so many wounds within them. They are just managing to cover it and go on bravely in the world
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When the Tsunami happened, everyone was reaching out. I do not understand why people are not reaching out to the HIV situation in the same way and with the same vigor. Why not?
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I have been to a number of international conferences (on world peace)... I don't see the seriousness in people. This is because violence has its investment & conflict has its benefits. Many people haven't suffered the pain of conflict, they don't know what it means to really be hit by these things. They only see it on television, as some kind of excitement
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When a child is handicapped either physically or mentally, the child is not suffering, parents are suffering, the child is incapable, but not suffering
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You have not been touched by life. you’re just a psychological case, you are full of thoughts and emotions. You have not touched life at all
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Deepest suffering to innocent lives in the name of God & promises of heaven by godmen who are abusers in disguise
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Haven't you seen enough people simply suffering for anything and everything? They suffer their failure, they suffer their success, they suffer their poverty, they suffer their wealth, they suffer their health and their ill-health
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Despite technological advancement, there are a large number of people suffering from hunger in the world. So many things have happened, and we have so much surplus crop that we have to dump it into the ocean.
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We can do something about the physical suffering, but people are creating suffering for themselves every day; suffering anger, suffering fear, suffering hatred, suffering jealousy, suffering insecurity.
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