You who suffer

Do you feel lost, alone, without the strength to go on? This text recalls an essential truth: the value of your life is measured neither by your possessions, your status, nor your failures. Through acceptance and a return to what matters most, a path exists to find inner peace, whatever your circumstances.

An unhappy woman is sitting on the bed of her modest studio apartment. — Even in sadness and discouragement, there is an inner peace, temporarily hidden.

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You who suffer

Finding inner peace when all seems lost

You who suffer, who feel lost and alone, who no longer know what to do and remain standing still at the roadside, know that your life is precious. Its worth does not depend on the money you have, nor on the number of people who appreciate you, nor on the social usefulness you believe you have or lack. Nor does it diminish when you fail or when others abandon you.

Your worth, the worth of your life, does not depend on your physical appearance, any more than on your social standing. It is great in the eyes of the Creator, as great as every life. A soul is a soul. None has more or less worth than another.

If you stopped believing what you are told about the value of money, other people, your doubts, your fears and your thoughts, you would be more open to the peace and love that I know to be within you, as in everyone.

Suffering can cover the mind like a very dark sky. It sometimes gives the impression that nothing else exists, that the light has vanished and the future is closed. Yet the light has never ceased to be there. It is only hidden for a time. Accept to suffer no more.

Accept to suffer no more, to no longer desire what you do not have. Accept to be here doing what you are doing. To accept does not mean to resign yourself: it means honestly recognising the present moment so as to respond to it with greater clarity. As long as we inwardly refuse what has already happened, we often add a second suffering to the first. This path of acceptance is sometimes difficult, but it is the path to finding peace again.

Contentment is within you and does not depend on the size of your television screen, any more than on the model year of your car, your social status, or the home you live in.

In any case, everything you believe you possess can be taken from you in an instant, through a hurricane, a flood, a fire, and then? Will your life have been in vain, once all your possessions are gone?

You can live this life if you agree to unclench your fists, to accept yourself as you believe yourself to be, and to turn your attention back to that place within you where inner peace has resided since your birth and until the end. You may not feel it right away; that does not mean it is absent, just as a spring continues to flow beneath the earth even when its presence remains unseen. If you do not know how to do this, on The Path we have a few pointers to help you work on it.

The time spent on this Earth is not so long; do not be like those who live as though they were to remain here forever. They gather possessions, homes, capital, relationships, influence, power, gold, land, as though none of it could ever be taken from them. None of these pursuits are worth forgetting what truly matters.

Attend to what you are, to inner peace, and seek how to find it again. Let yourself be loved, and love in return the one who loves you and asks nothing of you but your happiness and your awareness.

Within you lies the consolation you need, and God, attentive to your suffering, at every moment. It is truly possible to find this. Reach out if you are in need; it costs nothing.

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