Let Success Be Your Confident Reply

Let any pain you suffer actually purify you by processing through it so that you become emotionally richer, internally stronger and personally wiser. And, as best as you can, exploit this newfound clarity, creativity and maturity to build glorious fortunes of success, beauty and inner freedom. Let an even more beautiful life be your elegant response.

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I have faced a lot of pain in my life. I've been at the top of the mountain and I've been in the valleys of darkness. And I will share with you that I've grown the most through my difficult experiences. Sometimes people ask me in media interviews, do you have any regrets? And I always say, absolutely not. Everything that's happened to me was grist for the mill and fodder for my growth. Everything that happened to me, the amazing experiences and the most tragic experiences. were a necessary part of my evolution as a human being, and I would not trade them for anything. And so I wear my scars with joy and respect, as badges of honor of a human being who is flawed, trying to do his best. And I think you should as well. And if you're going through a painful time right now, trust that everything is happening for the best and this too shall pass. And here's a really counterintuitive idea. Stay in the difficult experience as much as possible. Pain is purification. Pain is purification. We burn off the dross that covers our gold in the difficult moments. It is in the difficult times of our life that you are being asked to learn empathy and understanding and forgiveness. It is the trials that teach you how strong you are. It is the adversity and the troubles that make us great if we choose not to be a victim, say, hmm, I'm going through trouble. How can I use this to develop forgiveness or understanding about that person who hurt me? Or I'm going through a difficult day or a difficult month or a difficult year. How can I, rather than complaining about it and becoming bitter, how can I use it to open my heart and to become stronger and to get to know my gifts and my talents? I was once on an airplane flying to Paris and I was next to an artist. And he told me, said, I pick relationship partners who break my heart. And I said, why? And he said, because when my heart is broken, I do my best work. And it is when we are suffering that we actually can become more creative. Suffering teaches you to become more real. Suffering can teach you to become stronger. When I have gone through the most difficult experiences of my life, I've always turned to a book by the great Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran, and it's called The Prophet. And there's a particular chapter on pain that I read in those dark times of my life. And I want to read it to you. And a woman spoke saying, tell us of pain. And he said, your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life? Your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy. And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. I want to go off script for a second. A great life is a series of seasons. You have your painful times, you have your happy times, you have your times where you are frustrated, you have your times where you're full of energy and inspiration. That's called human. There's nothing wrong with those emotions of pain and guilt and sorrow. That's a necessary part to living a colorful, real, beautiful, majestic life. And then Khalil Gibran continues, and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. I just... have to read that again because it's so beautiful. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility for his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand. the unseen. And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the potter has moistened with his own sacred tears. Honor your pain. Trust that what you're going through is for your greatness. And stand strong in the winters of your sorrow, so that when you get to the season of sunlight, you bring your greatness and your brilliance to a world in need of your gifts and talents.