We All Face Challenges in Life

We all face challenges in life. We all experience discomfort. No one has it easy. But the way we respond to these difficulties determines the quality of our lives, especially when we allow it to teach us.

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Background Music by Nada

[endlesssoul]

“Struggle builds character, character breeds purpose, and purpose changes the world.” ✌🏽

[sweet_lilly_arts]

"I walk slowly because I've been in a hurry ... And I have this smile because I've already cried a lot..."
This is part of a famous Brazilian song

[nicoleonfeels]

Hardship is inevitable, but staying down when life pushes you down is optional.

[jenna]

Once you can step back and notice that your mind will always be complaining about something, you can go "Oh, there you go again" and get on with your day.

[jtwalkes]

Its not the struggles that get you but your reactions to the struggles.

[danshari]

"Life is a mystery to live, not a problem to resolve." [Mahatma Gandhi]
"It takes a whole life to learn how to live." [Seneca]

[ReynaSingh]

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world 🙏

[James-ttml]

Enjoyed the walk in the forest Nada - there's not much that the forest can't sort out.... Fantastic. Thank you 🙏

[evierenee-]

I broke up with my girlfriend last night and got a notification for this video today. Well-timed.

[annakryzilinski]

Having lost everything dear to me I found this channel.

Your eloquence and articulation of the human condition or to put it another way your insight and ability to put into words the complexity of our inner lives is profound.
Once we had a real caring close kind supportive community where we lived.

Now we have the internet.

I'll take the former, but it's channels like these that expand our ability to experience the best of humanity and peace as we travel on our spiritual journey.

Thank you for your kindness.

[starrwilson]

Your videos give me hope. I live a non-conventional life, more focused on nature and love, and less focused on monetary gain. Happiness is a choice and gratitude is a habit for me. Thank you. 💜

[marcosantagata]

What a great video. Thank you for being so honest and reflective. This is the kind of spiritual teaching that resonates.

[FutureMindset]

No matter what you do or what your life is like, there'll always be pros and cons. We tend to have this idea that a certain type of lifestyle or dream job will just be perfect and everything will be sunshine and rainbows, but that has more to do with what we want the world to be like, rather than how it really is.

[DavidBoland]

thank you for this peaceful walk in the forest featuring gentle nuggets of wisdom caressing my ears.

[twiston]

I never compare people. Once I started doing that, I felt I had reached a new stage of wisdom.

[ek]

Learning the *Way of Knowledge* will slow your mind down, will bring you back into the core relationship with your own deeper experience and your core relationship with everything around you. This is the environment for *gratitude*. Though Knowledge will show you that there are many things you must adjust or correct, it will also bring you into a state of recognition of the miracles of your life. So while there is work to be done, there is great joy to be experienced and immense gratitude to be experienced.

Joy and Gratitude, by *Marshall Vian Summers*

[oneworldonehome]

"Inspiration is something that you must generate within yourself. You must also seek it in your environment and in your relationships. To seek it in the environment, you must direct yourself to those individuals, to those events, even to those historical accounts, that reinforce your conviction and commitment and remind you that greater things are possible given true determination, true companionship and a worthy goal."

A quote from a free online book by Marshall Vian Summers, entitled *Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 2* - Chapter 29: Inspiration

[YinTeing]

Living the contemplative life is much harder than living in the 'normal' world. I can attest to that because in 2008 I took a year off to live a more spiritual life in nature. Prior to that and after I work in highly pressurized corporate jobs. And I can say it is easier to be in a 'real' world than to live the way Nada does. In the 'real' world, if I am unhappy, sad, angry or jealous, I can numb those emotions with endless TV watching, shopping, binge eating, yelling and blaming other people. In a life of a contemplative, you got to DEAL and face all these emotions. And believe me, they never stop coming. The worst ones are those supressed emotions from childhood and goodness know from which lifetime that flares up that took everything in you to overcome. Most would just drop out halfway. Like what Nada said, just when you thought you figured something out, it turns out you did not or you would move to the next level. He is really speaking from personal experience. It is a tough route that only the few chosen ones can truly undertake for long term.

[shortycareface]

It's all too easy to look at everyone else and glamourize their life and experiences. I catch myself doing that while I'm in dark places myself. Or I think that "at least they have this and that, which I personally don't at the moment". Yet, I recognize that that's a flawed mindset to have. I was living together with a (now ex)partner back in 2020, and it was one heck of a rough year for us. Yet our friends looked at us like "But you guys _live_ together!" Truthfully, there were times when I wished we didn't since I felt like the time we had together was taken for granted all too often. There were also all kinds of challenges for us to face individually; us living together did not automatically make it a paradise. Yet, people around me made it out to be like that, and I got tired of hearing about it.

[rizwanqamar]

It takes so much inner strength to put one foot in front of the other some times in life. I am experiencing that now. It overwhelms me. I try to manage anxiety. Some times I succeed and at other I have sleepless nights.