“The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.”

“Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.”

“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”

“Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”

“Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.”

“What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.”

“We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.”