Daily Meditation: Monday, January 24, 2005

Problems - try to resolve them as they come along

01/24/2005

Every day, life presents a certain number of problems to be solved. Instead of making honest efforts to resolve them, those who try to avoid them soon find themselves faced with insurmountable difficulties. The reason is very simple. You went to school, didn’t you, and there you studied grammar, mathematics and so on. For each subject, you were given exercises to do. Take mathematics as an example: imagine that a student starts out by neglecting the exercises which accompany the first lesson. He is then missing the elements he will need for the following lessons. What will happen? The situation will become more and more difficult, and at some point he will no longer be able to manage. It is the same with the problems handed to us in life. Each problem satisfactorily solved provides us with the elements we need in order to face subsequent problems under the best possible conditions, because our efforts bear fruit. With every exercise we become more patient, more clear-sighted, and stronger.