Lisa Marie Blair

Tag: Suffering

  • Honor it All

    “Now when I recite the word namaste, I think about it in this way: the light in me honors the light in you, AND the dark in me honors the dark in you; the pain, suffering, beauty, and brilliance in me sees the pain, suffering, beauty, and brilliance in you. All of it, everything. Not just the light, love, truth, beauty, and peace, but also the dark, madness, confusion, and chaos. I want to honor it all because all of it deserves to be honored. We, each of us, contain it all.”

    — Sasha Tozzi, What I mean when I say the word “NAMASTE”

  • Sad and Noble Truth

    “[The crucifix] stood there, crowning the rock, as it still stands on so many highway sides, vainly preaching to passers-by, an emblem of sad and noble truths: that pleasure is not an end, but an accident; that pain is the choice of the magnanimous; that it is best to suffer all things and do well.”

    — Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla

  • Take Your Heaviness

    “Don’t be afraid to suffer—take your heaviness and give it back to the earth’s own weight; the mountains are heavy, the oceans are heavy.”

    — Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

  • Through Suffering

    “On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love.”

    — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man