Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement 3839: Why We Need Suffering by Cylon George of Spiritual Living for Busy People on Strength In Hardship
Dec 12, 2025
Experience the profound insights on why suffering is essential for personal growth. The discussion highlights the difference between necessary and unnecessary suffering, encouraging listeners to lean into discomfort. Practical tips include acknowledging pain and cultivating gratitude. Embracing hardships reveals hidden strengths and enhances resilience. Prepare to reconsider your relationship with discomfort and discover the transformative power of hardship.
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Suffering Is Part Of A Complete Life
- Suffering is necessary for growth and completeness of life, not just an unfortunate accident.
- Avoiding all pain leaves you unprepared and increases unnecessary suffering.
Blame And Expectations Increase Suffering
- Obsessing over how things 'should' have happened traps you in incapacity to deal with reality.
- Unpreparedness for pain, not personal flaw, explains many feelings of weakness and depression.
Two Types Of Suffering
- There are two types of suffering: necessary and unnecessary.
- We often flee necessary suffering and create more unnecessary suffering by being unprepared.
