What would life be like if there were no rough edges? If everything was smooth? How are the rough spots in life teachers? How do these edges make life more interesting?
For an oyster, having a rough grain of sand irritating it's soft insides produces a pearl. If there was no irritation there would be no pearl.
In spiritual texts and common language I've heard 'pearls' used as an analogy for wisdom.
So do these irritating, rough edged parts of life put into motion our learning and becoming wise? And if I look at the rough times, the times of irritation with awareness that there is potential for a pearl, does it move the process along faster? When I stop resisting so much and allow, the pearls come from everywhere.
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