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Know Someone Who's Suffering?

Clifford Jones

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How to use suffering and pain to wake up.

If you or anyone you care about is suffering and in pain, know now that life can get much better when we learn the purpose of suffering and how to transform ourselves.

If you read nothing else, the purpose of suffering is to teach us how to wake up and live a life rich with significance. That purpose is to contribute to making this seemingly insane and beautiful life on earth better.

Read on if you're curious about being happier, healthier, and rich with significance.

The Soul’s Vice

The soul’s greatest vice is always ignorance. That wisdom comes from Hermetic tradition.

If we know how to live in alignment with the virtues taught since the beginning of humanity, we can use them to improve our thinking, behavior, and treatment of ourselves, our family, friends, and neighbors.

Getting to this point can be painful if we let our minds and bodies sleep through life too long.

Source of Suffering

The source of suffering is our selfish thinking and behavior. Look around.

At the end of all great civilizations, selfishness, apathy, and dependency were the dynamics that called people…

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Clifford Jones
Clifford Jones

Written by Clifford Jones

Medium stopped paying me due to a technical problem on their end. Their support is unwilling or able to help me. So, I stopped writing. Get a grip, Medium.

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