Action and suffering, which together make up our lives, are a whole; they are one. A child suffers its begetting, it suffers its birth, its weaning; it suffers here and suffers there until in the end it suffers death. But all the good in a man, for which he is praised or loved, is merely good suffering, the right kind, the living kind of suffering, a suffering to the full.

The ability to suffer well is more than half of life - indeed, it is all life. Birth is suffering, growth is suffering, the seed suffers the earth, the root suffers the rain, the bud suffers its flowering.

In the same way, my friends, man suffers destiny. Destiny is earth, it is rain and growth. Destiny hurts.

Might your bitter pain not be the voice of destiny, might that voice not become sweet once you understand it?

~ Herman Hesse

In the midst of all the suffering, all the dramatism, One might wonder who is suffering. Turn inwards, the mind has no answers.

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