Thursday, August 30, 2007

What, exactly, is suffering?

Our pains are caused by our wrong viewpoints toward things. The
false self throws up an imaginary picture of how it insists things
should be. And every time this should be clashes with what actually
happens, we react painfully. The problem is not what actually hap-
pens, but our demands that something else should happen. Don't take
my word for this; experiment for yourself.

~Vernon Howard

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