October 26th

“A happy life consists not in the absence but in the mastery of hardships.”

• Helen Keller

We avoid pain.

We want all pleasure.

We’re delusional to some degree to think that this is how life works.

Suffering is needed in this life.

Without it, we wouldn’t learn the lessons that life has to teach us. 

We wouldn’t evolve.

We wouldn’t appreciate the good times.

We must know this deep down.

We must be grateful for the ups and downs.

When we learn how to use our suffering as fuel, we develop a strength that we have never known before.