“Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.”

— Terry Tempest Williams, book Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

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