Stirring up the mud
When the mud settles, the water becomes clear, and the people think it is pure. But after a storm the water again becomes mud. I am that storm, and I will muddy your crystal waters.
As long as you remain at a distance from suffering you will think yourselves pure. You must suffer if you are to realize the reality of suffering. It is necessary to realize the reality of suffering if you are to extinguish the causes of suffering.
Without thorough tempering in the fire, faults do not become apparent. Therefore, I rub your noses in your own dirt.
Jesus was a suffering servant not in order to save us from suffering, but to encourage us to suffer as he did. Greatness demands suffering. Genius always suffers, for it is an acorn planted in a flowerpot - a disproportion, without the strength to carry it.
The one who never suffers is either the wisest of the wise or the dullest of the dull.