Illness is our great teacher

Why do we fall ill? The patient asks with agony and tears fill his eyes.
No harm in falling ill, rather, I would say that illness is a need, or that we need illness. The need is to learn more from the odds of life, the life of each of us. Nothing reveals the hidden realms of our bodies but the explorations that are prompted by our sufferings. Illness and the pain are part of our sufferings.
We learn amazing beauties from illness. Beauties that bewitch the mind, take the heart away, and awaken the feelings. We learn from illness to see ourselves from inside, and discover the primordial matter that carries all our existence.
In humdrum days, we walk and forget the feet with which we walk, breathe the air and forget the lungs that work without stopping to let the air permeates all our body, defusing vitality and energy in it. Illness teaches us how precious every organ in our body is.
Illness teaches us to love infinitely and discover that we deeply need to be loved to appreciate that those who love us — and their love itself — are the most precious things we have. It is great happiness that you feel some hearts, despite their pains, hurry, pray and are shaken out of worry and fear for you.
On the contrary, it is harder than illness when you don’t find that caring touch when you need it or those hands that pray humbly for you. Had I been a doctor, I would have prescribed love as the first antidote to support the immune system.
Illness teaches us how trivial we are in this world and the delicacy of our existence as we go through our path of search for belief. That is how illness purifies our soles from outrageous disobedience and rude obstinacy leading us to the gates of heavenly guidance where there exist mercy, forgiveness, might and … everything. In these heavenly gates, we are freed from the prisons of earth, the pains of curiosity and extreme stubbornness … we feel unmatched relaxation ...
(To be continued next week)