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Everything we experience has a particular message for us. Every problem provides guidance, every illness a piece of information. Our problems and illnesses are not enemies to do battle with; they are friends that want to deliver us from the burden of ego. If we take our problems personally, we will suffer more than ever. But when we look at them as divine information and guidance and really listen to them, we will find the liberating message they contain.

Your problems show you how strong you are!

One important component of the Spiritual Laws is the fact that our problems are always tailor-made for us and arrive at just the right point in time. We are only ever given problems that we are equipped to solve. The point of this is to enable us to continue to learn and grow in spiritual maturity. Our problems exactly mirror our spiritual status. The right problems show up at the perfect point in time and within the perfect context, to enable us to learn what we most need to learn. This is why we should not ignore these problems or conceal them, play them down or make light of them, but instead should deal with them and solve them.

At the start of spiritual development, when a person has just woken up, there are lots of problems. Most of them are complicated and appear unsolvable. Spiritually immature people and egoists like to suffer from their problems rather than solve them. But once we have discovered the wisdom of our problems and their messages, and we approach them intelligently, then we will steadily grow stronger, smarter, wealthier and more mature. When we do not fight our problems but instead solve them, our life will grow more and more beautiful. The fact is, the more mature we become, the smaller and more subtle our problems become.

Everything has a story. Even a problem has its own story. When we get over our ego, stop whining and start paying closer attention, we can see where our problem originates and we realize that we ourselves are its creator. There is only ever one reason for a problem: our ego!

Our problems are our friends!

Even when it looks as though your problems are coming at you from the outside, the real cause of your problems and the real power behind them is only ever you yourself!

Our experiences are like road signs – they serve to inform, warn and help us. When we remove them from the streets, driving becomes a lethal adventure. It is exactly the same with our problems. When we push them away, ignore them, talk them up, deny, hush up or conceal them, they grow bigger and bigger. It is like a gum infection that we continue to play down and ignore, because we are scared to go to the dentist. The longer we wait, the more there is for the dentist to do, and so the treatment takes longer because the problem has grown bigger.

Therefore it is advisable not to ignore your problems and postpone them until later, but to tackle and solve them as soon as possible.

We can only solve our problems if we understand them and the story behind their origination. As we are always the cause of our problems, a solution can only be achieved through self-knowledge. If you justify your problems, look for excuses or make others responsible for the situation you are in, you have not only ground to a halt, but you are sinking deeper and deeper into the quagmire of your ego.