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 that you suffer consciously.
In the midst of conscious suffering, there is already the transmutation. The fire of suffering becomes the light of consciousness.
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