As a Zen master once put it: if one lives through a difficult crisis or experience and has to work through a great stroke of fate, this might save oneself 30 years of meditation. Although, this sentence is surely also meant to be humorous, it still contains a core of truth. Encountering ourselves deeply inside and meeting the profound insight into our being and life that can develop from a crisis, is of inestimable value. Maybe this thought can help everyone who is currently experiencing severe difficulties in their lives

October 7th, 2011