Tag: Suffering

• Traumatic Grace:

  rue transformation rarely arrives gently. A reflection on suffering, metanoia, and the breaking of the ego through traumatic grace.

  RMDell’Orfano

  June 2, 2026

  Autobio

  Abraham Lincoln, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, Character Transformation, Christian mysticism, Conversion, Dark Night of the Soul, Ego Death, Faith and Reason, Ignatius of Loyola, Leo Tolstoy, near-death experience, Oscar Wilde, Path Perilous, personal growth, Psychological Transformation, Religious Experience, Search for God, spiritual awakening, St. Francis of Assisi, Suffering, TBorn Again, Theology, Transformation Through Suffering, William James

• Suffering or Soma

  “Christianity without tears”Do our local churches preach this? Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle.

  RMDell’Orfano

  April 6, 2023

  Suffering

  Beatles, cbd, Coca, last hour, LSD, marijuana, pain, Pleasure, soma, Suffering, Timothy leary