When obstacles come in your way, face them with courage. They harden you and make you tough. Suffering and misery are inescapable acts of cosmic drama. God does not decree these calamities, but man invites them by way of retribution for his evil deeds. This is the corrective punishment meted out by nature, which induces man to give up the wrong path. All this is part of the grand synthesis in which negatives serve to glorify the positives. Thus death glorifies immortality; ignorance glorifies wisdom; misery glorifies bliss; night glorifies dawn.
(TFD June '03)
