If You Bring Love

By: Joseph Campbell  

At a certain moment in Nietzsche's life, the idea came to
him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' 

Whatever your fate is, whatever the heck happens, you say, "This is
what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as
though it were an opportunity, a challenge.

If you bring love to that moment - not discouragement - you
will find the strength is there. Any disaster that you can
survive is an improvement in your character, your stature,
and your life. What a privilege! This is when the
spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.
Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the
moments which seemed to be great failures followed by
wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have
now. You?ll see that this is really true.

Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though
it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it
is not.