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Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
The fire of suffering becomes the light of consciousness.
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The man on the Cross is an archetypal image. He is every man and every woman. As long as you resist suffering, it is a slow process because the resistance creates more ego to burn up. When you accept suffering however, there is an acceleration of that process which is brought about by the fact th...
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