Why Must We Avoid Suffering? · The Struggle Makes Us Whole
⁘ “Every lack, every absence, every shortcoming, every failure — there to lead you toward your fullness. If only you can look at it as it is. Accept, acknowledge, recognize the lessons you face. Instead of trying to avoid, escape, bypass, battle them. Every low tide and season of gloom, every shock and jolt and catastrophe. These teach you something about what is — they show you your reactivity. Embrace it. Study it all.”
Have you considered
how suffering shapes you for the better?
Every lack, every absence,
every shortcoming, every failure,
there to lead you toward your fullness.
If only you can look at them as they are.
Accept, acknowledge, recognize the lessons they bring –
instead of trying to avoid, escape, bypass, battle them.
What often happens is we deny one half of our lives
as we cling on to particular ideas
of what we are and what things should be.
It is not there, I deny the lack, I refuse the shadows,
and only good things shall fall in my way.
That's not the way this world
is supposed to function at all.
We are all here being recognized, being refined,
being transformed into the fullness of what we are,
rather than pursuing make-believe realities.
Every low tide and season of gloom,
every shock and jolt and catastrophe.
These teach you something about what is,
and they show you your reactivity.
Study it.