Sometimes our suffering is caused by our mind’s tendency to want things to be tidy and consistent, along with our expectations that life should unfold in a logical way. In reality, it’s often our closest relationships that cause the greatest heartache and the things we most care about that pierce us emotionally. Of course, it’s also those life situations that cause us great pain that often offer us important life lessons. See if you can move toward accepting, and even celebrating, the paradoxical nature of life.