“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.”
Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide To Life & Death And Love & Sex
Du kannst Dich zurückhalten von den Leiden der Welt, das ist Dir freigestellt und entspricht Deiner Natur, aber vielleicht ist gerade dieses Zurückhalten das einzige Leid, das Du vermeiden könntest.
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Du kannst dich zurückhalten von den Leiden der Welt, das ist dir freigestellt und entspricht deiner Natur, aber vielleicht ist gerade dieses Zurückhalten das einzige Leid, das du vermeiden könntest.
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Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg
“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.”
Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide To Life & Death And Love & Sex
In an interview shortly before he was killed, responding to a question by David Frost about how his obituary should read.
Context: Something about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering.
Source: Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
“It is your belief that you are being held back that holds you back.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 118
“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
Source: I Capture the Castle
Source: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974), Chapter 21 (p. 171)
Source: VALIS
Context: "Fear,” Jason said, “can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you're afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back.”'