The musicologist Gerd Rienäcker has written that Bach possessed a "consciousness of catastrophe" — a feeling for the suddenness and arbitrariness with which suffering descends on unsuspecting souls.
The enlightenment attained by the Buddha was essentially about the cause of existence in the phenomenal world, from which suffering inevitably stemmed.
The musicologist Gerd Rienäcker has written that Bach possessed a "consciousness of catastrophe"—a feeling for the suddenness and arbitrariness with which suffering descends on unsuspecting souls.
One evening, on a television in the gym, President Bush articulated his version of the romance of transformation, in which suffering made victims stronger, and compassion bridged divides of race and class.
In addition, they now face increased competition from the huge agency conglomerates, which, suffering from their own woes, have picked up their pursuit of accounts previously too small to bother with.
Direct, unfiltered communication with the unconscious, what the vodouisant calls 'esprit' or the 'mysteres', acts as a source by which suffering can be translated, released through ritual forms".
