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That the desire for wholeness and connection may be stronger than the appeals this world makes on our ego and state of separation.
I asked myself the question of why there is so much suffering in the world while all there is, is this Creator who wants to bestow us infinite pleasure.
When I look back on my illness, who I was before I got ill and where I am today, I certainly think more about others and am more humble. So in this sense it also prevented me from a lot of worse states of being.
I read the following passages from Michael Laitman:
“Even under unbearable pain you can feel perfection, if you only maintain spiritual contact with the Creator despite the pain.
It may appear to others that you are suffering unbearable pain, but you can feel instead completeness and delight if you create a spiritual contact with the Creator, despite the pain.
The body could burn and you would feel nothing. It all depends on the tightness of your connection with the Creator. The stronger it is, the greater the joy; the weaker it is, the lesser the joy.
Pain is given to us only to tighten the contact and attain the spiritual degree where all we feel is pleasure. We must think of it as the most important exercise.”
Despite seeing I transform through my chronic pain, I cannot help but feel angry with the Creator some days for bringing this kind of suffering into the world. In that sense, I sometimes feel a bit like Job in the Book of Job. These words of Michael Laitman, I hope I can attain such a state of adhesion to the Creator, because sometimes my pain is a lot to handle.
In 2009 I developed an infection which has triggered chronic illness. I have been living with this for a long time. This has led me to ask questions like why is there such suffering in the world? If there is a source, a creator who wishes to bestow pleasure, why is there immense suffering?
If the purpose of life is the correction of how to receive that pleasure, then how does chronic illness, physical pain and suffering serve in that final goal? And how can I use the condition of my illness to make that progress for the benefit of us all?
Hello my name is Teike,
I participated in the Kabbalah Revealed course in 2018. Somehow I have to take it again after logging in. But I don’t mind. I hope to learn new things I missed the first time. I wonder what the function of all the suffering in the world is. I got chronically ill early in my life and this has been a big challenge.
