Episode 24: Why Suffering Is Your Friend

Is pain, loss, failure and limitation really the enemy? While I agree it's a wonderful idea to minimise their presence in our lives, it's also true that much of our suffering can't and thus shouldn't be avoided, but rather embraced as if it were what we wanted all along. To go with the flow and offer no resistance to what life gives us, because it's already happened, inevitable. This is the secret to inner peace, transcending even the most dire suffering. But beyond this, suffering is in fact our benevolent and unfailing teacher, ever forcing us to go deeper and wake up to clearer consciousness in order to right our personal imbalances – every single mistake we make leaving a breadcrumb trail of sorrow and destruction which we can anytime choose to follow back to its source and so learn how to be better versions of ourselves, uplifting our own lives and the whole world toward peace and wisdom.