Is There a Stage of Suffering?

Suffering is always an opportunity for true spiritual awakening. You don't need suffering as such because you are voluntarily inviting the state of presence into your life. And then the challenges that happen also do not remain, are not the same that they were when you were unconscious and continuously reacting angrily or despondently in a very unhappy way. When you cannot face it for what it simply is, when you build up a huge narrative around it, you amplify it.