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The wonderful paradox about the truth of suffering is that the more we open to it and understand it, the lighter and freer our mind becomes.

By Joseph Goldstein
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Joseph Goldstein is an American teacher of Buddhist insight meditation (vipassana) and lovingkindness meditation (metta). He and fellow teacher Sharon Salzberg cofounded the Insight Meditation Society. He studied Buddhist meditation with teachers in India, Burma, and Tibet and is the author of several books.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAnyone who has made us suffer is undoubtedly suffering too.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAs my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageGod allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

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