Spiritualism does not offer an escape into a metaphysical paradise.
It offers the opportunity to become the master of the fire (of enlightenment), and the doer of the chosen acts and deeds.
There are many hills and valleys in the landscape of life.
People are not fundamentally motivated by pleasure alone.
They are not made happy by an endless supply of pleasures.
Many people are still in the waiting room.
They are yet to start living fully, wherever they are.
Birth implies death, Health implies disease. Youth implies ageing, Pleasure implies pain. Success implies failure. Meeting implies parting.
You cannot have one without the other. Each half has as much dignity as the other. Night is as dignified as day.
Old Korean saying teaches us: Don’t ask for perfect health – that’s just greed; make medicine from the suffering in sickness.
Don’t expect your path to be free from obstacles; without them, the fire of your enlightenment will go out; find liberation within the disturbances themselves.
When we see a person who accepts trouble or affliction, and goes on living in a positive way, we cannot but help being inspired.
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