‘Difficult’ does not Mean ‘Impossible’

‘Difficult’ does not Mean ‘Impossible’

1989 11 November 23 ‘Difficult’ does not Mean ‘Impossible’(304) Right throughout human history, the individuals who have achieved the greatest successes have been those whose potential, initially dormant, was aroused by the pressures exerted by the environment and the challenges thrown down by adversity.

When sugarcane is passed through the traditional type of crusher, about 25% of the sugarcane juice is left unextracted. This is because the pressure is inadequate and also because the sugarcane is passed through the crusher only once. Electric crushers, however, exert comparatively greater pressure and the sugarcane is passed through their rollers twice. Even then, 15% of the juice remains to be squeezed out. In large-seale mills, the pressure is even greater and the sugarcane is passed through the roller four times. This extracts almost all of the juice.

Exerting pressure is productive in other fields as well. For example, the enormous potential with which God has endowed His creatures would never come to the fore if human beings were not put under pressure by the circumstances of their lives. It is only under the severest of pressure that man’s true potential will blossom. Sometimes a man’s personality has almost to be crushed (like the sugarcane) before he will give of his best.

Right throughout human history, the individuals who have achieved the greatest successes have been those whose potential, initially dormant, was aroused by the pressures exerted by the environment and the challenges thrown down by adversity.

These were the people, who had learnt the divine secret of ease in the midst of difficulty, who had stepped into the field of life with the courage to plant the seeds of ease in the soil of difficulty, and to reap as they had sown.

Human vision tends to regard difficulty as an insuperable problem. It is only divine vision which can discern in it the element of ease.