“Occasionally, it’s true, I’ll meet someone–call him myself–who makes the same mistake again and again, heedless of what friends and sense tell him, unable even to listen to himself. Then he crashes his car, or suffers a heart attack, and suddenly calamity works on him like an alarm clock; by packing a punch that no gentler means can summon, suffering breaks him open and moves him to change his ways.”
by Pico Iyer from “The Value of Suffering,” which appeared in The New York Times (September 8, 2013)
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