‘Don’t Dread Suffering’: Read the Incredible Words of Vietnam POW Hugh Stafford | Video | TheBlaze.com:
Read all of this (I'm actually watching the episode on Glenn's show right this second)....BTW, Glenn has read these words at least 1 other time. I remember well because they are so damn profound when you hear them you will not forget them.
Here is the quote itself.
“Don’t dread suffering. It only makes it worse. Anticipate it. Predict it. Even exaggerate it in your anticipation of it. Don’t fight a neurosis or a symptom of one. It may be a friend in disguise, a mere symptom of a deeper disturbance rendered less severe by it. A neurosis may well be a vital protective shield. Detach yourself from it. Predict it. Exaggerate. Laugh at it. It can safely and effectively be ridiculed away but not torn away. Try to find ‑‑ try to find meaning in this every circumstance. Meaning varies with the individual and with every circumstance. With him ‑‑ or with me it may vary by the hour. The meaning for a particular moment may simply be to endure that moment in a manner in which you can be proud of. But beware of false pride. Don’t expect too much. Perhaps in retrospect it will show that it was meaningful enough just to have endured, to have survived, to try. Perhaps at the end of it, it is just as meaningful to look back and say ‘I tried’ as it would be to say ‘I succeeded.’”
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