"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."

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Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

— Eckhart Tolle