Daily Meditation: Sunday, August 19, 2001

Human beings cannot transform themselves if they rebel …

08/19/2001

Human beings cannot transform themselves if they rebel against the conditions of their life on earth, and if their ideal is to avoid suffering. I am not saying that you should not look for remedies to relieve your suffering. You should. But in the current stage of development of the earth and of human evolution we cannot avoid suffering. The earth is like a reformatory and a learning center at the same time. When man knows how to consider suffering, he triggers hidden forces that effect an immense work within him. Someone who has not suffered remains in poverty; he becomes like a painter who has no paints to produce pictures. On the contrary, someone who has suffered can use all the sensations he has experienced to give color, relief and depth to his life. All those who have accomplished great things in life have suffered a lot. They possessed black ink, and it is from this black ink that they drew the most beautiful colors.