This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1092, why we need suffering by Syllong George of

Spiritual Living for BusyPeople.com and I'm Justin Mollick.

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Why We Need Suffering by Syllong George of Spiritual Living for BusyPeople.com

Quote, if there is meaning in life at all then there must be a meaning in suffering.

Suffering is an ineraticable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death,

human life cannot be complete. Victor Frankl, I'll be upfront with you. I hate suffering.

I like comfort in the idea of a pain-free life as much as the next person, but I've also come

to realize something, something that you may have realized as well but are too afraid to admit.

We need suffering. What? Even saying that out loud feels ridiculous and counterintuitive,

but in my years of probing my own life and helping others do the same,

I believe it to be true. Famed blogger John Marrow just recently published his first post on a

new blog called Unstoppable. The entire post is an amazing read about his personal triumph through

his suffering. While reading the post, two sentences stop me dead in my tracks. Quote,

The people who struggle most are the ones who can't accept the incessant unfairness of life.

They become so consumed with what should have happened, the way other people should have

behaved that they become incapable of dealing with reality. Listen to that at least two more times.

Even though I already knew this intellectually, the way he wrote this convicted me on a deep level,

I've seen some people for which this has been true and it's certainly been true of me.

Two types of suffering. In my experience in study, I found that we experienced two types of

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