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“Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.”

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

Sermon VI : Sanctification
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Context: Sanctification is the best of all things, for it cleanses the soul, and illuminates the conscience, and kindles the heart, and wakens the spirit, and girds up the loins, and glorifies virtue and separates us from creatures, and unites us with God. The quickest means to bring us to perfection is suffering; none enjoy everlasting blessedness more than those who share with Christ the bitterest pangs. Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered. The surest foundation in which this perfection may rest is humility; whatever here crawls in the deepest abjectness, that the Spirit lifts to the very heights of God, for love brings suffering and suffering brings love.

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“Much of your pain is self-chosen.”

Source: kniha The Prophet (Prorok), báseň On pain (O bolesti)

Khalil Gibran photo

“And God said "Love Your Enemy." And I obeyed him and loved myself.”

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer

Source: The Broken Wings (Zlomená křídla)

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“But above all else, I wish for your happiness, even should you require my absence to find it.”

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BV8ONQOnTSr/

“The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.”

Source: Girl, Interrupted

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“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

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“It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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