2006
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he’s poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
117 min
CLEAR ALL
No matter how simplified or complicated life gets, it can make us miserable or it can wake us up.
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How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
As Buddhist teaching says, suffering has the potential to deepen our compassion and understanding of the human condition. And in so doing, it can lead us to even greater faith, joy and well-being.
One of the most important capacities we can access during this time of so much uncertainty is the ability to be comfortable in the unknown.