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in all three-brained beings of the whole of our Universe without exception, among whom are also we men, owing to the data crystallized in our common presences for engendering in us the Divine impulse of conscience, the whole-of-us and the whole of our essence are, and must be already in our foundation, only suffering; and they must be suffering because the completed actualizing of the manifestation of such a being-impulse in us can proceed only from the constant struggle of two quite opposite complexes-of-the-functioning of those two sources, namely between the processes of the functioning of our planetary body itself and the parallel functionings arising progressively from the coating and perfecting of our higher being-bodies, which functionings in their totality actualize every kind of Reason in the three-centered beings B372

one of the best means of rendering ineffective the predisposition present in your nature of the crystallization of the consequences of the properties of the organ Kundabuffer is intentional-suffering; and the greatest intentional-suffering can be obtained in your presences if you compel yourselves to be able to endure the displeasing-manifestations-of-others-towards-yourselves — Saint Buddha B241 ff

our Omni-Loving and Long-Suffering-Endless-Creator B372

the power of the All-lovingness and All-forgivingness of our Creator, suffering for beings B708

certain beings have labored and suffered only in order that we might now have all this and use it for our welfare — Hassein B76 ff

those incredible sufferings called Inkiranoodel which are like the sufferings called Remorse-of-Conscience but only much more painful B410

the Self-tamers, who called Buddhism suffering-in-solitude, invented a special form of suffering B256 ff

a sensation called Sirkliniamen, which state is invariably accompanied by mechanical suffering B277

their being-existence flows almost always with unproductive moral sufferings B1077

see sorrow

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