“Suffering is the Way for the Realization of God”
“Suffering is the way for Realization of God,” the saint replied. “Distress often leads people to faith in God. The cause of your misery is not in your outer life; it is in you, as your ego. You impose limitations on yourself and then make a vain struggle to transcend them. All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. What does it avail you to attribute the cause of misery to the happenings of life when that cause is really within you? What happiness can you get from things extraneous to yourself? When you get it, how long will it last? Rely only on the bliss of the Self.”