What spiritual things did you learn from a difficult phase of your life?

Question

It could be a phase of unemployment, illness, depression, bereavement, poverty, unhappiness and so on.

Everything in our lives has something to teach us, and within every so-called 'disaster' there is treasure to be found.

What did these times teach you?

Answer 1

I've hit a few times in my life where for the life of me I couldn't see how I could learn from it for the better and for the better in me but surprisingly you do and that as been a lesson in it's self. For the past year I have been grieving for someone, something I have never experienced before and even though it as shocked me not only mentally but physically the affects it's had on me and made me question spirituality, life death the afterlife etc but also made me look at my own morals and values, it's made me look at what's really important in life and one thing it made me face was mortality and I'm still trying to see what else it as taught me because I know there's been many lessons in this but as yet I'm still unsure but from past experiences I know to expect more.

Answer 2

Last April 2007, my mum who was 78 at the time, was suddenly taken ill. She was diagnosed with pnuemonia, sceptecimia and a perforated lung! We were told that she would not last more than a few days because of her age. In the same week and same ward, two people less than half her age died with only the pnuemonia. After a month in hospital and almost two months in rehabilitation, she came out a bit worse for wear, but very much alive. I personally, have always put it down to the fact that her 2nd great grandchild was born just two months before her illness and my son willed her to get better, watch him grow and be a part of his life. I believe there is always something to keep you going especially where family are concerned. I think my mum is living proof of that. x

Answer 3

The delusion of individualized love is a pointer that true love can be only all-encompassing.

Answer 4

I learned that when you are vulnerable that is when the religious people try to get you to buy into their warped belief system.

I learned that there is no good reason to rely on supernatural help, you have to pick yourself up and rely on yourself and to a lesser extent your good friends and family (if your lucky enough to have any) to get through your problems.

I learned that believing in supernatural leaves you open to manipulation by people who don't always have your best interests at heart.

The most important thing I learned that time is a great healer and that even when you think things can never be good again, they will get easier to bare.  

Answer 5

From being unemployed:-

That you are as happy as you choose to be and that being overly serious (and therefore tense) does not do you any favours in the long term.  

Answer 6

I have been working for 12 years in a shop mainly on my own.  This is a long story but I have hated it at times.  When I look back, I can see now that I have learned from being on my own and have actually come to thank the situation because I have become very spiritual and thank big G for my time alone. One has to look for the good in every bad situation.  

Answer 7

After getting my heart absolutely shattered by someone I loved, I learned about how time heals all wounds, and that it really is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.