What is it to suffer? Is it to allow myself to be as I am, to stay with myself as I am? To suffer my neighbor to be as he or she is—to stay with them closely, not expecting them to be other than how they are? First I need to find the possibility of allowing, of accepting however I find myself to be, before I can extend that sympathy to another being.
Rosemary Nott, from “Perceptions on Suffering” in PARABOLA: Spring 2011. (via parabola-magazine)
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