Life is suffering.
Did you know that?
Maybe you’ve experienced suffering involuntarily in your life
because of a hardship that befell you.
Or maybe you chose suffering
because it was the only way to achieve what you wanted.
Of course, life is not always suffering,
nor is it about suffering.
Yet suffering is there.
What matters is
how we deal with it
and why we deal with it.
When we have the goal
to grow and improve continually,
when we strive to strip away
all that does not serve our deepest wish,
our life purpose,
we meet with resistance.
That resistance is suffering.
Finding our center,
and from its safety,
letting go of our resistance
releases our internal suffering
and buffers us from the effects
of our external circumstances.
And when suffering
is for our growth and vision,
behind and beyond
the discomfort and pain
of the moment
is a light, a joy, and a gladness
that cannot be found
if we spend our lives
avoiding suffering
for the sake of being comfortable.
Life is suffering
and that’s okay
because suffering can be the means
to so much more.