Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.
I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it.
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.
Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenges are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can extend over a long period of time, but they should not be allowed to become the confining center of everything you do.
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.