The redemption of spiritual victories, almost inevitably, passes through suffering; but here too everything depends on the quality of suffering or, we could say, on what feeds the suffering that is never lived by choice, but is usually unconsciously suffered.
When an individual severs his bondage to society (family, state, religion) and to the instinctive and cyclical rhythm of his participation in nature, or when he no longer gives priority to the development of the mind and the social power, appearance, prestige, fame and well-being required in a competitive society, unaware of the damage he will do to the natural harmony and the constant rhythm of his biological functions, his mind, his emotions and emotional drives, he inevitably causes suffering to himself and to the world in which he lives. Suffering can be fueled by a will to victory over the domination of the ego, or by a stubborn decision on the part of the personality to gain control over anything that challenges its (illusory) power, or even by a feeling of defeat and impotence, which in some cases can turn into a semi-conscious will to voluntary destruction, or into an unconscious desire for involuntary destruction.
We must learn to distinguish between conscious suffering and functional pain, dictated by unconsciously breaking the laws of Harmony. With suffering, especially if chosen as a transformative act, man reaches another level of sensation, because suffering implies a more or less individualized consxiousness of pain – not only physically perceived, but of emotional pain related to one’s idealization, personal desires, goals, expectations and claims to obtain or be something other than what one is.
In our Universe, every transition between two states generates friction and in man this clash of forces is experienced as suffering, and this is persevering when the fear of being overwhelmed, attachment to the past, distrust in one’s own abilities or the exuberant anxiety of excelling, create tensions, internal conflicts or false expectations.
These processes, in the Work of self-knowledge, if used as transformative experiences, are by far the salt necessary for celestial agriculture, otherwise this suffering is not only useless but by its nature it repeats itself endlessly.
He who chooses the path of Being must always be ready to accept the unexpected, as well as knowing how to welcome the miraculous: one must have faith. Faith is the unquestionable and intuitive sensation, even if intellectually inexplicable, that makes us realize that we are surrounded by an infinite Possibility in which everything is as it should be.
Most people are deaf to the call of the Spirit, they are narrow and refuse to hear and see, so involved in the frenetic agitation of the surface, generating fears, including the false masochistic belief that the world is a scenario of cruelty and suffering.
