Sunday, February 5, 2012

Adversity is an inside job.

We all have had more than our share of hardship in life, but there is no point in brooding over the past. We have to find solutions, not unredeemed bleakness and move forward with defiant and cheerful stoicism. Acceptance of adversity must become second nature to successfully tackle life, as an opportunity. Only by learning what fear is can you finally learn to distinguish possible from the impossible and the false from the true.

As long as we live in this world, we are bound to encounter problems & it’s not ourselves but everyone, who has to undergo suffering, so don’t lose hope try to overcome hurdles. The few concepts of cause, effect, interdependence and impermanence must move beyond intellectual understanding.

Sometimes the greatest moments happen unplanned and the greatest regrets occur from not reaching what is planned. You have to hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, and lose in order to gain because most of life’s lessons are learned in pain. All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.
Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed.

Don’t be afraid of death, be afraid of a life you didn’t live, you don’t have to live forever, you just have to live. The self is not a stable entity nor is there any “true” self to be discovered, the self is something that instantly changes skins like a snake. Everything is ultimately reduced to a physical existence and nothing exists outside the physical universe.

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