Ending Suffering

1. Why is there so much suffering in our world?

2. What can I do to help end the suffering of others?

3. What do people ever gain from suffering?

4. If adversity brings wisdom, then why are there so many people that still don’t care about others?

5. Is it necessary to suffer to gain enlightenment?

6. How can one good deed really make a significant difference in this world?

7. Why, after centuries of wisdom, do people STILL suffer?

THE ANSWERS

1. Why is there so much suffering in our world?

It is my deepest belief that suffering in our world exists because so many people have given their power away to others, rather than take personal responsibility to turn things around for themselves. Once they learn that they, in fact CAN, then this alone gives them tremendous hope to be a beacon first for themselves, and then for others.

Suffering is a choice where many people have not yet learned how to turn it all around. Once they do, they become unstoppable forces for good in our world.

2. What can I do to help end the suffering of others?

The only thing you can do is be an example of how you turned your own suffering around. This gives far more inspiration than preaching. You can share where you once were, how you felt, and how you embraced the challenges before you to come out of suffering. Your example is far more valuable than you may realize.

3. What do people ever gain from suffering?

Nothing, except the one moment where they decide that they are going to turn their own suffering around. However, some people actually need to “hit bottom” in order to face the adverse conditions in their life, so they can then decide how they would prefer it to be.

Some people operate a great deal from the level of ego, and suffering can serve to open their hearts and feel compassion for others that are less fortunate. Sometimes certain people have to go through “the dark night of the soul” in order to serve others, and help to see them through their most difficult times.

This happened to me, and the suffering I have been through has served as a tremendous gift of compassion and understanding, so that I could relate to others that are in the midst of terrible heartache, and help them to come out on the other side of their suffering, to embrace the lessons their soul came into this life to learn, as well as view their lessons on Earth School to be quite valuable to their own personal evolutionary process.

The most important thing people gain from suffering is the realization of the gift and higher reason behind it, that will serve them for the rest of their lives.

4. If adversity brings wisdom, then why are there so many people that still don’t care about others?

Many people operate and stay stuck strictly in the domain of fear. This is operating at the level of ego, as opposed to heart and soul. Many people avoid their lessons, and put valiant effort into protecting themselves from being vulnerable enough to face their deepest issues, open their heart, and seek to evolve.

So it is not so much that people don’t care, it is that they have not evolved enough to care as much about others, as they do themselves. Some people remain stuck in blame territory, for decades. They blame others for their lot in life, rather than seek to create the lot in life that they prefer on their own accord.

Other people create a great deal of drama, and seek the attention they are craving, so their “payoff” is attention, rather than growth.

There is no need whatsoever to ever judge anyone that has not grown enough to care about others. What is most important is that you have compassion for them, because no one has the right to judge you therefore, you have no right to judge others at all.

Show loving compassion to those that are still stuck. Perhaps your love will help them to feel a glimmer of hope that they have not yet been able to find yet on their own.

5. Is it necessary to suffer to gain enlightenment?

Absolutely not. Anyone can gain enlightenment by connecting to their Higher Self, and asking for a higher perspective with respect to any and every situation in their life. As I stated earlier, some people have to go through a lot of suffering to get them to open their heart to find the higher reason for the suffering. Once that higher reason is found, there is a great deal of heart-based enlightenment that goes with it.

There is no prerequisite to attaining enlightenment other than a genuine heart-felt desire to do so.

However, true enlightenment is not an intellectual concept. It is an experience that resides deep within your heart, and sustains itself within your essence at all times. It is not intellectual at all, it is a deep shift within the core of your being, and as this shift happens, your energy rises to the new level of wisdom that you have experienced. It is a process that is eternal, not a one time event.
Each enlightening level you experience will forever be with you, however, suffering is not the prerequisite. Your heart is where all wisdom and enlightenment resides. Which is why it is so important to live from your heart, and not your head.

That does not mean to ignore common sense safety, it means to stop protecting yourself from feeling, and being vulnerable enough to experience what it does feel like to live from your heart center, rather than from the level of ego that carries so many fears.

The only thing that is necessary to gain enlightenment is to truly open your heart. That is the highest state you can ever operate from, and one that will never let you or anyone else down.

6. How can one good deed really make a significant difference in this world?

There was a story that I (vaguely) remember, however it truly serves to show you how important one good deed is.

Many years ago in the USA there was a man that was stuck in the mud with his horse and buggy. Another young lad came walking down the road, and helped the man to get the carriage out of the mud. The man wanted to pay the young boy, but he refused, as he felt he was just doing a neighborly good deed. The older man asked him what his greatest wish was. The young boy stated that he had always wanted to be a doctor when he grew up, but his family was poor, so he didn’t think he would be able to ever go to medical school.

The older man had told the boy that he would pay for his education, and gave him his contact information. When the boy grew up, he contacted the man, who kept his promise, and paid for the young man to go to college and medical school. That young man became Dr. Fleming, who invented Penicillin.

I believe that the older man had a son that became President of the United States, and Penicillin had saved his life.

On top of that, I would not be writing this for you right now if it were not for Dr. Fleming, as when I was ten years old, I almost died of Scarlet Fever, and it was Penicillin that literally saved my life.

So the next time you wonder about doing one small good deed, remember that the rippling effect can ultimately save millions of lives.

7. Why, after centuries of wisdom, do people STILL suffer?

People must learn that all suffering is in the mind, and is entirely attributed to how we view the situations and events that transpire in our lives.

Some people will kill themselves over an event. Others will do all they can to find the seed for life renewal, cures, answers, and positive outcome that can come about as a result of their experience.

I nearly took my own life due to how I viewed an unjust custody battle. However, once I was given a genuine higher perspective, and decided to create positive and lasting change as a result of my experiences, the suffering ended, and became fueled with purpose.

There are many people that lose loved ones, and start foundations, causes, funds for cures, new laws, and a host of other positive avenues of help and hope for humanity, as well as all of life on Earth, as a result of opening their heart to “make a difference” and turn their suffering into a triumph.
Is it easy? No, until you see the higher reason behind it.

Always remember that suffering is not a “punishment”. It is trying to bring you to a higher place within. Once you embrace that you can transform your suffering into positive action, that alone will give you so much more purpose, when you feel you have lost all hope of your own.

I’ve been there. I understand this area more deeply than I ever thought I would. However, I am also here to let you know that once you have a genuine change in perspective about the event or situation, that perspective can be a beacon of help and hope for so many others that need it. Please remember that. There is a higher reason for everything, look for it, ask to know what it is, and you will be amazed at how much of a difference you can make as a result of all you have been through.

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