Suffering

“I think, therefore I am … I think, therefore I am unhappy.”

- Gil Fronsdal

or

“Happiness is what is left when we stop thinking.”

I thought this was brilliant.  Because we make ourselves suffer, by our perceptions, our thoughts, our thinking.

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One Comment

  1. serendipity hopeful

    Buddha has been telling us this for years but we find it hard to absorb.

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