What does it mean to become more fully alive? We share a universal wish to live a worthwhile life. In our pursuit of meaning, we must grapple with the reality that suffering is an inevitable aspect of our human condition, and an experience to be confronted, rather than avoided. While cultivating the capacity to bear suffering is an enormous task, emotional pain holds the potential to place one in contact with the fundamental “being-ness” of our humanity, which is the very es