Suffering is a sign of human greatness not yet fully realized, or wantonly wasted....
Suffering can never be a goal or have a value in itself.
It is a training in objective understanding and emotional severance;
a test in endurance of our will and our faith....
Suffering is the condition for breaking man's identification with the "less"
as he climbs on his way to "more".
It is the pressure of his greater destiny upon his attachment to his lesser goals....
Here the greater and subtle lure which distracts many a soul is: self-pity.
"Why has this happened to me?"
To this, there are varied metaphysical answers.
There one practical reply, however, is
"Because you do know yet what your full power and your essential goal are.
Not yet."
-Triptych - The Way Through
