What can you say about suffering that makes it better? If “better” means an end to suffering, let’s be honest: nothing. Suffering, in the sense of adversity, is written into nature. Plants do not ...

“Hardships prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary life.” – C.S. Lewis Are pain and suffering destructive experiences to be avoided, or are they opportunities for people to develop an ...

“One has to accept sorrow for it to be of any healing power, and that is the most difficult thing in the world … A priest once said to me, ‘When you understand what accepted sorrow means, you will ...

If someone you loved were in the emergency room, where would you be? Even if the answer is obvious—I would be there as well—ask yourself why. Emergency rooms are not pleasant places, and the ...

I am fortunate to receive daily meditations from Ricard Rohr and periodic dharma talks given by Thich Nhat Hanh before his death. Of late, Rohr and his friends have been writing about the connection ...

Eight years ago in 2007, I was scribbling down in my diary the tragedies of being in eighth grade. Seeing me in distress, my best friend took the diary from me and wrote in it a lyric from a song.