Day 7: Finding Meaning from Suffering

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Story (Helen Keller): Helen Keller once said: "All the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it". Helen overcame the enormous adversities of deafness, blindness and muteness. She courageously fought to communicate with the outside world and in the process she created a life of accomplishment and fulfilment. Helen became a well-known celebrity and lecturer, who shared her experiences with audiences, and worked to help others living with disabilities. In choosing to help others even while suffering yourself, you find your meaning and direct your mind away from your own suffering. You overcome your own suffering by helping others through their suffering.

Story Essence: Helen Keller's life teaches us that the process of finding meaning in suffering does not lie in feeling like a victim of your fate. Instead, it comes from overcoming your suffering by reaching out and helping others. Rather than being a victim, you become a victor.

Specific Action: Today, think about how you can begin helping others, even through your own pain. Yes, it might seem like you first need to get over your own hurt and anger before you can help others. But, you'll find that as you begin to help others, you'll find meaning in your own suffering, while simultaneously realising the joy that comes from helping others. Write down your ideas.

By reaching out to and helping others in their suffering, you create your own meaning, as well as taking your mind off your own problems and struggles. Tomorrow we will look more closely at other possible meanings of suffering.


Helen Keller, What is the IWW? (1918): Speech given at the New York City Civic Club, January 1918, quoted in Helen Keller: Her Socialist Years (International Publishers, 1967).

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