#suffering is universal

[goodgrammaritan]

Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means "to suffer with," which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering.

Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion

[theselfcaremaven]

ƸӜƷ …

My efforts now turn … From trying to outrun suffering, to accepting love, wherever…I can find it.

Stripped of causes and plans… And things to strive for, I have discovered everything I could need or ask for…Is right here…In flawed abundance!

We cannot eliminate hunger, but we can feed each other…

We cannot eliminate loneliness, But we can hold each other. We cannot eliminate pain, But we can live a life… Of compassion.

Ultimately, we are small, living things…awakened in the stream…, Not gods who carve out the river!

Like human fish, we are asked, to experience meaning, in the life that moves…through the gill of our heart.

There is nothing to do… and nowhere to go…Accepting this, we can do anything and go anywhere

#Mark Nepo…ƸӜƷ

On: Why I Write

[thewordssfanatic]

If sufferings were an unnavigable dense forest, life is a meandering trail making its way through the woods.

[sweetheartfemme]

when leo tolstoy said “rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed” and when kurt vonnegut said “the truth about the human situation is just too awful” and when jonathan safran foer said “i regret that it takes a life to learn how to live” and when ernest hemingway said “you are so brave and quiet i forget you are suffering”

[blue-jasmine2yas]

Don’t act like I am not dying inside

. . . because I am not inlove or experiencing something profound of the like.

I have tried, to deny it to myself, too, but I couldn’t keep lying.

[thestarkbtch]

sad french songs always cheer me up a little bit