july

Life is difficult.

This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult.
- M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

Beauty matters - Wannabe Polymath. Interested in art, music, history, philosophy and faith.

Perhaps it is too optimistic or even naïve to just understand and simply accept life.

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I think that is a helpful way to look at life’s difficulties.

I look at it from two angles:

- the difficulty in living as yourself while playing by rules that constantly attempt to pull you out of yourself 
- the acceptance that comes from understanding that the difficulty is there for something. To teach you *something* and then it just is