{"id":5172,"date":"2024-11-03T23:57:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T23:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2024-11-03T23:57:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T23:57:41","slug":"una-llamada-al-amor-sufrimiento-y-gloria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2024\/11\/03\/una-llamada-al-amor-sufrimiento-y-gloria\/","title":{"rendered":"The way to love: suffering and glory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u00b4s continue with our series of featured meditations by Anthony de Mello, from his book The way to Love<\/em>: today I\u00b4m sharing with you meditation number twenty-six (you can read the previous ones here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, I\u00b4d like to clarify that even though these reflections start from a seemingly Christian context (always beginning with a quote from the Bible), in reality, their content is much more spiritual than religious, so regardless of what your beliefs are, I encourage you to keep reading and then draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here we go:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?\" - Luke 24:26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think of some of the painful events in your life. For how many of them are you grateful today, because thanks to them you changed and grew? Here is a simple truth of life that most people never discover. Happy events make life delightful but they do not lead to self-discovery and growth and freedom. That privilege is reserved to the things and persons and situations that cause us pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every painful event contains in itself a seed\nof growth and liberation<\/strong>. In the light of this truth return to your life now and take a look at one or another of the events that you are not grateful for, and see if you can discover the potential for growth that they contain which you were unaware of and therefore failed to benefit from. Now think of some recent event that caused you pain, that produced negative feelings in you. Whoever or whatever caused those feelings was your teacher, because they revealed so much to you about yourself that you probably did not know. And they offered you an invitation and a challenge to self-understanding,\nself-discovery, and therefore to growth and life and\nfreedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Try it out now, identify the negative feeling that this event aroused in you. Was it anxiety or insecurity, jealousy or anger or guilt? What does that emotion say to you about yourself, your values, your way of perceiving the world and life and above all your programming and conditioning? If you succeed in discovering this, you will drop some illusion you have clung to till now, or you will change a distorted perception or correct a false belief or learn to distance yourself from your suffering, as you realize that it was caused by your programming and not by\nreality; and you will suddenly find that you are full of gratitude for those negative feelings and to that\nperson or event that caused them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now take this one step further. Look at everything that you think and feel and say and do that you do not like in yourself. Your negative emotions, your defects, your handicaps, your errors, your attachments and neuroses and hang-ups and yes, even your sins. Can you see every one of them as a necessary part of your development, holding out a promise of growth and grace for you and others, that would never have been there except for this thing that you so disliked? And if you have caused pain and negative feelings to others, were you not at that moment a teacher to them, an instrument that offered them a seed for self-discovery and growth? Can you persist in this observation, in your observation till you see all of this as a happy fault, a necessary sin that brings so much good to you and to the\nworld?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you can, your heart will be flooded with peace and gratitude and love and acceptance of every single thing. And you will have discovered what people everywhere are searching for and never find. Namely, the fountainhead of serenity and joy that hides in every human heart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What do you think of this topic? Does it resonate with you? If so, remember that pain is mandatory sometimes, but suffering is optional<\/a>... <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continuamos con nuestra serie de meditaciones destacadas de Anthony de Mello en su libro Una llamada al amor: hoy comparto con vosotros la meditaci\u00f3n n\u00famero veintis\u00e9is (puedes leer las anteriores aqu\u00ed, aqu\u00ed y aqu\u00ed). Por cierto, quiero aclarar que aunque estas reflexiones partan de un contexto aparentemente cristiano (empezando siempre con una cita de la … Continue reading The way to love: suffering and glory<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3116429,"featured_media":5171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"BinaryWords - Una llamada al amor: sufrimiento y gloria \/ The way to love: suffering and glory","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Siguiendo con el tema de los \"lifequakes\", \u00bfqu\u00e9 podemos aprovechar del dolor? \/ Still on the topic of \"lifequakes\", what advantage can we get from pain?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,5161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-unallamadaalamor","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DPtR-1lq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9688,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/09\/14\/ventanas-al-mundo\/","url_meta":{"origin":5172,"position":0},"title":"Windows to the world","author":"binarybea","date":"14\/09\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Esta semana o\u00ed un comentario en la radio que me pareci\u00f3 curioso: dec\u00edan algo as\u00ed como que muchos j\u00f3venes de hoy en d\u00eda consideran que se puede saber m\u00e1s de c\u00f3mo es realmente una persona por los libros que posee que por su perfil en redes sociales. \u00bfT\u00fa qu\u00e9 opinas?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Personal"","block_context":{"text":"Personal","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/category\/diario-journal\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/binarywords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_20260822_195817-e1789341732906.jpg?fit=1200%2C756&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9635,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2026\/08\/31\/reto-de-30-dias\/","url_meta":{"origin":5172,"position":1},"title":"30-day challenge","author":"binarybea","date":"31\/08\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00bfQu\u00e9 opinas de los retos de 30 d\u00edas? \u00bfAlguna vez has hecho alguno? 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