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I think everybody has to experience a certain amount of pain on the way to maturity.

—Ruth Casey

Our lives have been a series of lessons, many of them not particularly easy. It's generally the case that the ones we gained the most from were the hardest or the most tedious. Is pain always a requirement for growth? Hindsight may suggest that, but we need to realize that our willingness to grow or change, coupled with the faith that we were always in safe hands, could have made all of our transitions quite smooth. Nothing ever had to be as hard as some of us made it.

Attitude, along with faith, has always had a powerful impact on our perceptions of life. No two people have ever made identical observations of any situation. Needless to say, we all make a choice about how to interpret the varied circumstances in our life. So-called accidents of nature are seen as quite purposeful to some, while others are defeated by them. Physical ailments are accepted as opportunities for developing another dimension of one's life by those who prefer a positive outlook. Our freedom to interpret each experience as a lucky opportunity or as undeserved devastation has always existed and will never be taken from us. How have we managed that power so far?

Am I content with how my life has evolved? Where it goes today is in my power.

—from Keepers of the Wisdom