We can come out of life calamities, such as great sickness, disability, prejudice, abuse, or loss, with powerful wisdom.
What’s going on?
We often aren’t sensitive to more profound wisdom when things are working out as usual. There’s no need. We’re meeting our needs and finding ways to eke out a modicum of pleasure in various ways. And nothing need rock the boat.
However, when our standard tools and paradigms of the world stop making sense, and we aren’t able to function as we once did, we’re forced to tune into a deeper Voice, transcendent of the worldviews in front of us.
What’s happening is that misfortune can put us in an extended state of forced reflection * — a reflection that obligates us to find alternative methods of experiencing the world — simply to survive.
And this process can provide us with a tremendous well of insights, leading us to discover a Deeper Truth.
Misfortune can thus very well bring about our very salvation.
Ranjeeth Thunga
Perspective Mapper
*(see movie “Into the Wild”)