http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/the-big-ideas/topics/your-suffering en-us 60 <p align="center"><em>&quot;Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It's a great enhancer. It might last a minute, or a month, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a greater space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believe that I grew, and further defined my capacities--not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience.&quot;</em></p><p align="center">&nbsp;</p><p align="center">~ Lance Armstrong, 21st century cyclist and 7 time Tour de France winner</p><p>There's a way to look at suffering...</p><p>How are <em>you </em>looking at the suffering in your life?</p><p>&hellip;</p><p>More on Lance&rsquo;s lessons from his experience with cancer:</p><p>&ldquo;<em>Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things--whether health or a car or an old sense of self--has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.&rdquo;</em></p> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:43:11 -0000 forums.thinkarete.com:503:130:130 brian http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/503/topics/130