Words about suffering have a heavy, foreboding ring. To be afflicted is to be struck down. To be depressed is to be pressed down. Yet if we learn to embrace suffering, to carry it rather than lying under its weight and letting ourselves be crushed, then something strange happens.
"We have lifted the weight and instead of being crushed by it we find it extraordinarily light--'My yoke is easy, my burden is light.' The pain remains but it is more like the piercing of a sword than a weight.
--The Attentive Life
--The Attentive Life
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