The human heart dares not stay away from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.

We cannot escape history.

This side of Nirvana, there is no such escape for any of us as far as I know.

First, what do we mean by anguish? The existentialist frankly states that man is in anguish. His meaning is as follows-When a man commits himself to anything, fully realizing that he is not only choosing what he will be, but is thereby at the same time a legislator deciding for the whole of mankind-in such a moment a man cannot escape from the sense of complete and profound responsibility.

No one in this life can escape hardship.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

that we must suffer, suffer into truth.
We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart
the pain of pain remembered comes again
and we resist.

It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.

It is not possible to escape from the results of the irruption of faith into the structures of our knowledge.

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

Our difficulty accepting impermanence is the heart of human suffering.

What can't be helped must be endured.