Life is suffering and let no man or woman tell you different. We suffer because we perpetuate the same conditioned thinking handed down to us by our parents, peers, culture, etc., that were handed down to them. These “Sins of the Fathers” can be stopped only when we at last turn within and examine that which we believe to be true about ourselves and the world around us.
One of my favorite (and sometimes most dispiriting) lessons from Robert Adams was his admonition that you can tell how far you’ve come in your spiritual growth by how you behave when life throws you a curve ball. Do you retreat into your shell,…
