The origin of suffering is attachment.
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Buddha
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The love of the world is the root of all evil.
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Prophet Muhammad
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Setting one’s hopes upon something that must vanish is a lack of reality. Like lightbulbs, which manufacturers are capable of making a perfect vacuum in which the filament would never oxidize and hence the lamp never need a replacement, but in which they leave a trace of oxygen so that more bulbs will need to be consumed in the future-this world has purposely been designed by its Creator to fall short of human expectations. This is of the lutf or ‘all-subtle loving-kindness’ of al-Latif, the All-knowing and All-solicitous towards His servants. If the pain, disappointment, and sordidness of this world were less patent, people would forget the infinite beauty of the Beloved and the abode of His limitless largesse. Ibn ‘Ata Illah says, “He knew you would not take mere advice, so He has made you taste of its flavor, to make it easier for you to leave it” (Hikam (8) 62: 230).
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