According to Osho, growth doesn’t come from hopeless misery, which collapses your energy, but from conscious suffering held with hope and inquiry. When pain is embraced as birth pangs—signals of a coming dawn—it becomes transformative, leading to breakthroughs, new awareness, and playfulness. Accepting pain as fate breeds breakdown; engaging it creatively invites inner evolution.
Pain helps you grow only when you keep hope and use it to search for a better way; giving up turns it into misery that blocks growth.