Suffering Breaks the Shell of the Ego

The greater the rigidity of my egoic mind structures, the greater is the level of suffering that I am going to experience in my life.

However, the more rigid my mind structures are, the more they are susceptible to shattering.

As my mental structures become stronger and stronger, due to my identification with my thought processes, my internal suffering also increases.

Eventually, there comes a time in my life when I am no longer able to take this suffering anymore.

Such a point is created by life in the form of a ‘limit situation’ that manifests in my reality as some form of tragedy.

Such a situation that might be dealt with by someone else with ease renders my life unmanageable due to my deep identification with my mental structures.

This external tragedy shows me that nothing that is used to believe in is true. I reach a point where I no longer know who I really am.

When I am at this point, I have two choices.

Either I can go into a deeper identification with my mind structures and start to blame my life. Or, I can awaken to the fact that my mind structures are the reason why I am experiencing this level of suffering.

Life presents us with the possibility to determine our destiny because, at every point, numerous possibilities exist.

In this way, my suffering creates an opportunity for me to awaken.

This is how life, under immense pressure, turns me from a rock into something magnificent, in alignment with my true nature.

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