"So often, those disasters, tragedies, and sorrows that were so dark when they were present experiences appear as good or worthwhile in hindsight many years later."
The most transformative events in my life were things I would have never chosen.
This also blurs the distinction between the beneficial and detrimental, and ultimately good and evil. Resistance, challenge, hardship are often required for something greater to emerge.
"So often, those disasters, tragedies, and sorrows that were so dark when they were present experiences appear as good or worthwhile in hindsight many years later."
The most transformative events in my life were things I would have never chosen.
This also blurs the distinction between the beneficial and detrimental, and ultimately good and evil. Resistance, challenge, hardship are often required for something greater to emerge.
Love the analogy of the flame to consciousness. As above so below... existence as a fractal.