Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine.

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer...

...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...

He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Christianity is like a nail," he (Yemelian Yaroslavsky). "The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.