Suffering is our own choice. Grace, blessing, is a gift: suffering is a choice. Blessing is our nature – to be blissful, to be blessed, is natural.
To be miserable, to be in suffering, is our own effort, it is our own creation. Suffering has the signature of man, blessing has the signature of God. Suffering has to be earned -when you are able to see you will be surprised: suffering needs much more work, much more effort, because to suffer is almost making the impossible possible. It is not your nature to suffer, and still you create it. It needs arduous effort. Going against nature needs much work — and people are working day in, day out, year in, year out, life in, life out, people are working hard to create more and more suffering for themselves.
If you are suffering, remember, you must be creating it. There is no other way to suffer.
But if you feel blessed, then it is not your doing: it is a showering from the beyond. Suffering is man-made, bliss is god-made – bliss is your nature, your very nature, your very ground of being. – Osho