What is Suffering?

We can either suffer from our suffering, or we can use it to end suffering... To abolish anguish, we must understand its nature... It is a face to face encounter with something that the false self does not want to face.. It is resistance against the Truth, against Reality.. We resist the very Truth that could liberate us because we don't recognize it, because we are still under the delusion that falsehood is all there is... Suffering is nothing more than an attempt by Nature to help us face illusions we don't even suspect we harbor.. Scientist Louis Agassiz points out, "Nature brings us bach to absolute truth whenever we wander"... If we learn the lesson, we lose both the illusion and the pain it causes.. If we resist, misery remains...............Vernon Howard