Human beings should confront suffering voluntarily because it promotes growth and is the pathway to transcending pain.

“if you get people to voluntarily confront what makes them afraid and what makes them want to avoid then they get better it's curative”

Suffering can be salvific and transformative when individuals embrace it and find God in the midst of the experience.

“it's the mystery of our faith that god enters the messiness rather than just fixing it from the outside he enters this and and takes this upon himself and transforms it when we find him there i suggest we find him anywhere”

Seeking out chosen suffering is a powerful tool for building resilience and testing one's personal toughness.

“I'm trying to test myself. I want to see if I'm tough enough to do this. So, those when I think of hard, it's those.”

A strong, identified sense of self fosters craving and clinging, which are the fundamental causes of suffering.

“but as long as there's a strong uh sense of feeling of self in our lives, it's precisely that view of self that just strengthens the craving in the mind and the clinging in the mind.”