Reflect means grasping the totality of a situation, especially our own role in producing it

 

 

When did you suffer most? Can you face that suffering? Listen
Think of a time that you have suffered
Why did you suffer? How did it affect your life? Can you face that suffering?
“When there is no escape from the movement of sorrow, then love is.”
“If we are able to face that emptiness, to be with that aching loneliness, then fear altogether disappears and a fundamental transformation takes place.” J. Krishnamurti

Have you ever made a moral compromise that made your life easier?
“It is always possible for an afflicted man to suffer less by consenting to become wicked…The alternative punishment is a mediocre life, and in what way is a mediocre life preferable to affliction?” (Simone Weil)

Turn suffering into a song
Can suffering be used for self-transformation?
How can you do this?

Have you ever found old grief pass into spiritual joy?
“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place of the riotous blood of youth.” Feodor Dostoyevsky