AGNIPUNEETHA

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 7, 2011 at 10:06am

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 29, 2012 at 8:58am

Meaningful suffering, simply stated, carries us forward. Consciousness and life arise out of it. Meaningful suffering is transformational and to the extent that it is transformational we can speak of it as being a suffering that is clean burning. Meaningless suffering, by contrast is dirty burning. With meaningless suffering, life is left to smolder away unproductively. Meaningless suffering neither heals nor transforms because in it one is necessarily separated from the life process itself. One is separated from the healing and transformational process of self-organizing Reality by one's wrongful clinging to mere illusions of meaning. Meaningless suffering, to put it somewhat differently, carries us away from the real work we should be doing. It diverts our attention from the real developmental work at hand. Tears, for instance, are not always clean burning. Contrary to the assumptions of most, tears do not necessary indicate that a process of transformation and healing characteristic of meaningful suffering is underway. Tears may have nothing whatsoever to do with transformation and everything to do with an unproductive descent by way of the controlling ego into an illusion of helplessness and self-pity. Such suffering, no matter how intense and passionate, will give birth to nothing; for it is the emotional equivalent of spinning one's wheels on ice or in mud without traction, even as one pushes the gas pedal through the floor, as it were.

Permalink Reply by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 30, 2015 at 7:20am

Imagine this: You're choosing between two job candidates. Both are qualified for the job. One has a perfect resume, all the right schools and internships, while the other ... not so much. Well, human resources executive Regina Hartley suggests: Give the "scrapper" a chance. From personal experience, Hartley knows that people who've overcome difficulty, whose resumes "look like a patchwork quilt," are often the workers with the grit to succeed in our ever-changing workplace. "Choose the underestimated contender," she says, "whose secret weapons are passion and purpose."