Are all of these struggles and their sufferings merely disparate circumstances, void of meaning and vicious in intent, or are these vicissitudes of life invisible structures placed before us, meant to reveal both the ladder to the Heavens and the Soul created to ascend it? How we answer this question determines the direction and the outcome of our individual existence.

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There is that suffering that serves to ripen the soul and there is that suffering that rots it… and each person must choose.