How to Enjoy Your Problems
It is in this light that my victimhood begins to slough off like the skin of a snake. I see how I have been unable to forgive life for what it demands of us, for what it forces us to grow into and inside. I have been denying my place on the web and complaining about the order of things. I have wanted to remain small and weep under life's skirt, and
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- Suffering doesn’t block awakening, it catalyzes it. Most people don’t begin their spiritual path because everything is fine. It’s suffering that cracks the surface of the self, but only when we turn toward it with open-heartedness and support does it become the doorway to transcendence. Trauma and revelation aren’t
Trauma, Transcendence, and the Beauty that Breaks Us Open – Integral Life
I wish I had realized that I don’t need to force myself to try to change or resist what I thought of as negative habits. That all my so called problems and difficulties are actually gifts that have allowed me to learn and grow.
Trevor Warmedahl quoted in Leyla Kazim’s substack here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/leylakazim/p/trevor-warmedahl-intervie
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