Ilchi Lee View Obstacles as Blessings
No matter how enthusiastic and confident you are about the attainment of your dreams, difficulties will arise. For a lot of people, these obstacles derail their dreams. Somehow, they have developed a fairy-tale idea about how their lives should go. They think that if something is meant to happen it will happen automatically.
Actually, that is not the way of life at all. Just look around you and notice the natural world. Everything is pushing and struggling to move forward. All the beautiful things on this planet came into being as the result of many years, sometimes millions of years, of suffering and strife. Actually, we modern humans have it very easy, being able to accomplish quite a lot in a short life span while living in relative safety and comfort.
Lee says that have you ever seen a dandelion pushing itself up through a crack in the concrete? You need to adopt the same mindset if you really want to blossom in this life.