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Can the suffering in the world be stopped?

Only by ending your own suffering through awareness can you truly contribute to the world; external solutions merely shift the form of pain, never abolishing it.

— Osho
According to Osho, the world’s suffering cannot be stopped; it has always existed and will persist. Only an individual’s suffering can end—through awakening. External fixes (bread, houses, prosperity) merely shift pain’s form, often deepening mental anguish. Rather than weeping over the world, end your own misery through awareness; from that clarity, compassionate action arises, but it doesn’t abolish collective suffering.

You can’t end all the world’s pain; wake up inside and end your own, then help wisely without believing you can erase it.

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