‘Abdu’l-Bahá, during His historic travels to the West from 1911 to 1913, spoke about this reality of the human condition:
The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. The more the ground is ploughed the better the seed will grow, the better the harvest will be. Just as the plough furrows the earth deeply… so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment… Man is, so to speak, unripe: the heat of the fire of suffering will mature him. Look back to the times past and you will find that the greatest men have suffered most.
Reflections on the Growth that Hides in the Pain of Suffering
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