Suffering’s Gift

There are many paths to awakening - service, devotion, renunciation, contemplation, meditation. And off to the side of these, draped in sadness, open sores and endless rivulets of body-wracking tears: suffering. Unlike the others, you don't choose it. It singles you out in a salted embrace and dumps you into (seemingly) endless black.

Keep your heart open!

From the abyss, grace.
From grace, empathy
From empathy: hope for the next sufferer's awakening.