Evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris has written that stress is what creates evolution in nature: Plants grow through pruning. Human beings grow the same way. When we’re faced with a situation that we can’t control or change with our current level of understanding and skill, evolutionary stress arises and impels us to question, seek, practice, and eventually take a leap outside of our comfort zones into higher levels of awareness.
From Quantum Leap, by Sally Kempton for Yoga Journal.
Ah, that thought gave me some relief – maybe because it gives me hope that at the end of all we’re going through right now we might have gained some wisdom, too …
I’ve learned that the hard times are the best times to lean in… there’s usually something on the other side.