DIFFICULTIES ARE
STEPPING STONES

Man is a hidden treasure of nature. The blows of hardships bring this treasure from within to the surface. The entire human history shows that those who faced the greatest difficulties became the strongest.

When a seed breaks open, a mighty tree grows from it. The same applies to a person’s character. When someone faces life’s pressures, their inner abilities surface. What was once hidden as a “seed” now appears as a “tree.”

There are two types of people. One sees a difficulty simply as a difficulty. The other sees a difficulty as a challenge. Viewing a difficulty as just a difficulty leads to a mindset of despair, while seeing it as a challenge encourages a mindset to confront it.

If you see a difficulty simply as a problem, even your current abilities will weaken. Your ability to think will become frozen. But when you see a difficulty as a challenge, new courage emerges within you. Your mind begins to work more effectively than before. You come up with new strategies to move forward.

A person who experiences only ease becomes limited, and his thinking becomes shallow. But a person who faces hardships and difficulties grows stronger, and his thinking gains depth.

Difficulty acts as a teacher. Through challenges, a person learns things that can’t be taught in any classroom. Difficulty adds experience to a person’s knowledge, turning what one has merely read or heard into personal discovery.

The difficulties in life are part of life’s journey. They are there to help you rise from the bottom to the top and become the master of your hidden treasures.