Depression: The Key to Happiness

Published on Mar 15, 2014

Depression is something i've had to deal with my entire life, yet the more i've grown the more i've come to realize and understand how it has both benefited and strengthened me. This world is upside down and backward. Depression is simply your authentic self knocking at the door. Remember - the world is crazy; you are not.

"The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. The more the ground is ploughed the better the seed will grow and the better the harvest will be. Just as the plough furrows the earth deeply, purifying it of weeds and thistles, so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment. His attitude in this world will be that of divine happiness. Man is, so to speak, unripe: the heat of the fire of suffering will mature him. Look back to the times past and you will find that the greatest men have suffered most." - Abdu'l-Bahá