Suffering is bullsh*t
Perspective Shift:
- 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
The whole of the ancient, master teachings on suffering come down to this: Suffering is the notion “This isn’t it,” and it’s variants such as, “I can’t bear this, it shouldn’t be happening,” and “I have to know how this will turn out” and “What if it gets worse?”
Freedom, waking up and fearlessness come down to the simplicity of, “Wait a minute,
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But if happiness and enjoyment of life is ‘health’, is unhappiness and struggle ‘ill-health’? Isn’t struggle natural and inevitable? Are sorrow and grief not a part of the human condition? Are we to pathologise every ache of the soul? I used to believe that emotional pain was something to be solved, something that signified to me a failure in my... See more
They Convinced you to Love Yourself So you’d Forget to Respect Yourself
To deconstruct my definition of suffering as mental illness was also to deconstruct my definition of getting better. If healing doesn’t mean a reduction in symptoms, what does it look like? I wasn’t going to find out by tripping or reading books or having therapy, but by stepping away from it all and living.
Rose Cartwright • I Was the Poster Girl for OCD. Then I Began to Question Everything I’d Been Told About Mental Illness
Cancer with its “redemptive power” can be a “growth opportunity” allowing “creative self-transformation,” “spiritual upward mobility,” or otherwise make you a better person.