Diamond Within : Finding Joy Through Life’s Challenges
Sep 2, 2026 · 40 min · 13 segments
When we think about darkness, we instinctively shy away from it because things in the dark are things that are unknown or scary. Even as kids some of us were afraid of the dark. The darkest times of…
Eric SorensenGuestCourtneyHost
Because leading out to that were a lot of small moments of light and understanding that led me to that point to be able to make a decision.
It's funny because I wish I knew now Or I should say, I wish I knew then what I know now, because I realize that in a lot of sense, that suffering, which lasted for years, I actually chose it.
One day you wake up and you have cancer or something that was no fault of your own.
And what I would tell myself then, what I know now, is that we typically don't really get what we want in life.
I wanted happiness and joy and to get out of this thing and to get my life back and all those types of things.
Instead, you know what I would have done? I would have made a decision that I am going to get out of this now and figure a way out.
It is like putting, uh, the posting the, the sand, the flag in the sand and making a mark and saying, I will no longer refuse to live that way anymore.
Um, and when you make a decision, decision, the word decide actually means to cut off.
Wanting is one thing, but it's so much different to say, you know, I want this thing versus I'm gonna decide I'm gonna have it.
And it's funny, each time I've noticed where I decided instead of wanted, those things usually come to pass, whereas the wanting doesn't always.
And I think because there's this measure of commitment with decision, because decision literally means to cut off or in Latin, it's to remove all else, meaning remove all the things that are keeping you from that want, that desire and decide to remove those and then move forward on the path of, of that decision.
Because leading out to that were a lot of small moments of light and understanding that led me to that point to be able to make a decision.
It's funny because I wish I knew now Or I should say, I wish I knew then what I know now, because I realize that in a lot of sense, that suffering, which lasted for years, I actually chose it.
One day you wake up and you have cancer or something that was no fault of your own.
And what I would tell myself then, what I know now, is that we typically don't really get what we want in life.
I wanted happiness and joy and to get out of this thing and to get my life back and all those types of things.
Instead, you know what I would have done? I would have made a decision that I am going to get out of this now and figure a way out.
It is like putting, uh, the posting the, the sand, the flag in the sand and making a mark and saying, I will no longer refuse to live that way anymore.
Um, and when you make a decision, decision, the word decide actually means to cut off.
Wanting is one thing, but it's so much different to say, you know, I want this thing versus I'm gonna decide I'm gonna have it.
And it's funny, each time I've noticed where I decided instead of wanted, those things usually come to pass, whereas the wanting doesn't always.
And I think because there's this measure of commitment with decision, because decision literally means to cut off or in Latin, it's to remove all else, meaning remove all the things that are keeping you from that want, that desire and decide to remove those and then move forward on the path of, of that decision.
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