Your lowest point…

Your lowest point is the doorway to your highest self. For when the heart breaks, something far deeper is taking place than mere misfortune. We often don’t realize the value of the darkness until it has passed. For only in the absence of light do we learn how to become the light.

The human mind seeks comfort, but the soul stirs for change. It longs to grow, not to remain the same. As I’ve said before, the meaning of life is simply to be alive. And yet we resist the very currents that are pulling us into deeper awareness of that aliveness.

You are not here to chase happiness like a dog chasing its tail. Happiness is a byproduct of becoming whole. And wholeness requires contrast: dark and light, sorrow and joy, breaking and rebuilding.

So when it hurts, let it hurt. Don’t run. Sit with it. Listen to it. And when you finally rise from it, you’ll realize that joy was never in the outcome, but in the transformation. Feed the soul, not the ego. Choose evolution over escape.

Supporting Wisdom

Christianity:

"Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong."— 2 Corinthians 12:10

Taoism:

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."— Tao Te Ching, Ch. 22 (paraphrased)

Buddhism:

"Pain is certain, suffering is optional."— Teachings attributed to the Buddha

(teachings from Alan Watts)