Belief traps or frees us.

Cancer changes your whole life.

If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.

Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get on with our living. After we stop we see that certain of life's issues will be with us for as long as we live. We will pass through them again and again, each time with a new story, each time with a greater understanding, until they become indistinguishable from our blessings and our wisdom. It's the way life teaches us to live.