your problem is your teacher

All too often we avoid anything which is ugly, painful, inconvenient, uncomfortable or upsetting to us.

One of the most important things we need to learn, however, is that our problems actually serve as beacons of light.  They are magnifying glasses, emphasizing our most crippling fears, our most restrictive attitudes, judgments, and misconceptions which are holding up our progress—things that we really must face and overcome if we are to grow.

We must understand that our problems represent the lesson we need to learn. We are all in the process of becoming wiser, and better, and more real.

The difficulties we face are like a gateway through which we must pass in order to proceed. Our problems are, in fact, our teachers.

So get in, and get curious.