Willingness to suffer

Facing reality can be difficult for me at times. I want to avoid the anxiety that permeates my body when I’m confronted with difficult problems. And yet, at the same time, I’m reminded that I have the capacity to face those problems, but only if I don’t let myself self-sabotage and submerge.

I have to choose to emerge from the comfortable bliss of ignorance and distraction.

• The wishful thinking.
• The willful blindness.
• The learned helplessness.

I have to choose to experience pain and sit with a disturbed mind. Willingness to suffer is a source of power.