Why We Suffer

The Truth about Pain, Healing, and Awakening.

Young people stabbing each other outside schools. Girls going to the discos without underwear because “it’s cool”. Abducted newborns. Abused children. Elderly people assaulted on the street.
The war happening “on that side of the world” has the same roots as the violence we witness every day “on this side of the world“. But here is the truth: “this” and “that” do not exist. Separation is not only an illusion: it’s a sickness.

Why I do what I do? This is my naked, raw, and uncomfortable why.

I see people in pain, and I see people choosing pain over joy, often without even realising it. Why does this happen? Because of our low level of self-awareness -our inability to recognise our true Self, the Source to which we all belong and we all must return.

If what I’m saying triggers you, take a moment. Know that you’re not the one being triggered. You are the one experiencing the sense of being triggered. This distinction matters. So, I invite you to keep reading.

We Must Wake Up To Who We Really Are.

If you’ve ever read The Four Agreements by Don miguel Ruìz, or explored the teachings of Moojibaba, or followed any other spiritual teacher, you may have heard this affirmation: “This life as we live it is a dream. We must wake up to our true Self”.

What does that mean? It means that the intensity of the pain we experience is directly tied and proportional to how strongly we identify with our “persona”. The more attached we are to this constructed version of ourselves, the more we suffer. The more we identify with the one suffering, the more we suffer. We need to take a step back, and create some breathing room to fully understand this, not with the mind but with every cell of our body.

True liberation from suffering comes when we recognise that we’re not limited to this one-dimensional identity. We are multidimensional beings. The life we call “my reality” is just the experience of one of those dimensions.

Pain Is a Choice We Make, Consciously or Unconsciously.
When we refuse to explore our true essence; when we focus only on the surface of life; when we deny that we are energy beings; we make a choice.
Every time we dismiss the idea of healing from within by saying “yes, but” or by avoiding it altogether, we are choosing pain over joy. We are choosing suffering over healing.
This isn’t an opinion. This is how it works.

And yes, I understand: many people endure real, raw, and profound trauma in life. Pain that feels unbearable. That’s exactly why I do what I do. Because some people need help. They need someone to hold space for their healing.

None of us is meant to do this alone anyway. At some point every single one of us meets someone who offers a helping hand. But only those who want it, will grab it.
This is my hand, extended to those who need it. Because nobody reaches healing or awakening “first”: we get there together.

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