This sounds like one of the easily disproved promises of Jesus, for no mountains are moved, no limbs are regrown for amputees, and there is much death and suffering in this world. How can we understand this saying? Perhaps considering His words in the way of the "death of self " can open this for us. In the great submersion, in the death of self, of the passing of the old man and the growth of the new man- the Christ, the realization of the oneness of the Logos and the connectedness of all things we can see that which is behind all things, that the actualization of the love of the Logos is the world and all its wonders. Some are healed for His glory. Some are left in suffering for His glory. In all it is in Him and for Him, and when we are perfectly united in His will then "all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well."Julian of Norwich The Stoics have taught us that those things which neither lead us to virtue or tempt us to vice are indifferents. So much in this life falls into this category. Schopenhauer showed us that that which is the death of egotism is good, and that which extends egotism is evil. If a man lays down his life and his will and takes up Christ, is this not the ultimate good? And united so with the Logos, with Christ, is there anything impossible to us, although the idea of "us" or "me" takes on a very different meaning in this state?
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