It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.
Interpretation
Suffering and hardship are essential for spiritual growth and understanding.
Orson F. Whitney emphasizes that the challenges and pains we face in life serve a higher purpose; they are integral to our spiritual education and development. Through these experiences, we are refined and made more akin to our higher parents in heaven, suggesting that personal growth often emerges from difficulties.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate that which is really important, and to exact and extol what is trivial and of little worth. Many things which are hidden and unrecognized of human wisdom are nevertheless valuable and vitally important.
You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.
How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice.
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