125. Why Me?: 3 New Ways to Look at Life’s Biggest Challenges
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt like the challenges you experience in life are meaningless? According to Kabbalah, every single bump in the road is there to help us evolve into something more than we are today. We invite you to join us for this live-recorded episode of Spiritually Hungry as we discuss the purpose of darkness in life.
“You have the ability to say, this isn’t just a terrible thing I’m going through—there’s a purpose to this. And not only is there a purpose to this, but this is actually the purpose of life.” - Michael Berg
Further Readings:
Far From the Tree, by Andrew Solomon
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| 0:00.0 | When it's so hard and you think that you have nothing left, to be able to survive or to surpass that great challenge. |
| 0:16.0 | But those are the moments. And it's hard to keep that perspective unless you have a belief system that everything that is happening to you is happening through you and for you. |
| 0:26.6 | And that's the big shift that has to happen for people to be able to recognize that darkness is a way to get to light. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm so happy to be here in LA, spiritually hungry, live. |
| 0:40.3 | Yes. |
| 0:41.3 | There's a fundamental concept both in philosophy and many religions, that everything in the world |
| 0:47.3 | has a balancing or opposite side. |
| 0:51.3 | Front and back, up and down, dark and light, which is our topic today. |
| 0:57.0 | Psychologist A.J. Marsden wrote, |
| 1:00.0 | No left without a right, no up without a down, no inside without an outside. |
| 1:05.0 | Opposites give each other meaning and are connected to each other. |
| 1:09.0 | It may be our imperfect, subjective, and limited perspective |
| 1:12.6 | more than anything else that determines whether something is light or dark, |
| 1:16.6 | good or evil, positive or negative, and so forth. |
| 1:19.6 | And if we enlarge our views, we will find that little, if anything, |
| 1:23.6 | is completely one state or the other. |
| 1:26.6 | If there are two sides, there are two sides of the |
| 1:29.5 | same coin. So I'm really excited to unpack this because I think this is where we get into a lot of |
| 1:34.5 | trouble in life. We are marred by things that have happened to us, maybe circumstances we were |
| 1:42.4 | born into or trauma that happened over the years. And I think |
| 1:45.3 | if we can take this perspective that everything has to have those two opposing forces, because |
| 1:51.1 | it's an opportunity for us to become the best version of ourselves, then I think we'll live |
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