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If you see it as suffering, then I must warn you, it's going to be a long trip before you reach the end, or this point- "state of mind". A labyrinth is more than a maze or a puzzle waiting to be put together. It's got to be figured out. Every turn and every obstacle. Learn it and expand it, and you will get out. Ignore and look for every shortcut possible, then It's going to take much longer. To get out, you must first sink deep in.
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Ah, yes! a John Green reader! The answer in the novel is to forgive, although is was previously believed to be death. I do think we merely mis-image our life, thinking it is constriction to fine limits and rules. Truthfully, it is your choice to even BELIEVE in the labyrinth.
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You will never get out. I'm sorry to have to say it but this is a truth that I have learned and will stand by until it is proven to me to be otherwise. However, not getting out does not mean you are trapped. Don't sit in a corridor and make yourself comfortable with knowing you will never get out because it will always haunt you.
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You will never get out. I'm sorry to have to say it but this is a truth that I have learned and will stand by until it is proven to me to be otherwise. However, not getting out does not mean you are trapped. Don't sit in a corridor and make yourself comfortable with knowing you will never get out because it will always haunt you.
You need to explore your own personal Labyrinth of suffering. Memorize every wall, start to question why that wall is there, think about how that wall changes not only the Labyrinth but who you are as a person. Eventually you will find the walls get wider, less claustrophobic. The ground is softer and your feet hurt less to walk the endless winding path.
The Labyrinth is a path you must walk alone, but soon you will look back to where you used to tread, floor worn down by the ever paced halls and you will find yourself in a better place then you were then.
It won't get easier, things rarely ever do, but it will haunt you less and less each time you find a dead end where you hoped there would be a door.
When you find the room, the room at the end of it all where you look back on your journey, you will see the hand-prints of everyone who has ever touched your life. Making it hurt less with each touch. But what will really move you is all the hand-prints that you will behind on everyone else's Labyrinth.
I love me those metaphors...
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enjoy the ride when you can. worry about getting out when the ride is over. besides, it's not all suffering. the bufriedos are pretty good.
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Didn't you read the book? Forgiveness! ;)
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Didn't you read the book? Forgiveness! ;)
But I think that the point is we DON'T get out out of the labyrinth of suffering. The section about buddhism helped me realise this, because it's right. The only way out is to not attach ourselves to anything. But attachment is what makes life liveable. I love my loved ones, and I'll suffer when they die or if something happened to them. That doesn't mean I shouldn't love them, it means I should live with suffering.
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Yes we will. Everybody suffers, even if they don't want to admit it. Loved ones die, we die, our bodies hurt. There is an end to it though, and the exciting thing is, no one person can reach the end of suffering without experiencing the world around them and everyone in it also as non-suffering. So the end of suffering is something to be experienced by everyone. Just as we now all experience suffering and are so comfortable with it that we even try to pretend we don't live in a world of suffering; we will all come to know a world of endless peace, even if we don't know or believe such a world can come to be.
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I didn't know I was suffering. Maybe I am not. Define suffering so I can stay away from it.
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Life is full of suffering. We should try to aspire help end people's suffering of different kinds, in different ways. That's the best we can do.
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This world is suffering, but sometimes seeing the little things, the little miracles can help. For me, coming from my walk of life, it's seeing God's creations in this world. Just the very fact that we are alive and that he loves us is amazing. Taking a walk outside and just seeing the beauty in this world, or the intricate design tells me that even in a world of suffering, even in this labyrinth, we can find beauty, and love, and peace. As for how we get out? For me, it's finding and developing a relationship with Jesus Christ through prayer and the Bible, so that when he may return he may take me out of this labyrinth, which he designs and knows like the back of his hand, as no one else every will.
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This world is suffering, but sometimes seeing the little things, the little miracles can help. For me, coming from my walk of life, it's seeing God's creations in this world. Just the very fact that we are alive and that he loves us is amazing. Taking a walk outside and just seeing the beauty in this world, or the intricate design tells me that even in a world of suffering, even in this labyrinth, we can find beauty, and love, and peace. As for how we get out? For me, it's finding and developing a relationship with Jesus Christ through prayer and the Bible, so that when he may return he may take me out of this labyrinth, which he designs and knows like the back of his hand, as no one else every will.
DFTBA.
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We won't. As evidenced by the responses so far, and as pointed out by @Zamfir yesterday, this may be caused by a fundamental attribution effect. We assume that other people's suffering is caused by their own personal failing, but that our own suffering is situational.
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