The eye of the storm

Bernadette Roberts (emphasis mine):

So the storms, crises, and sufferings of life are a way of finding the Eye. When everything is going our way, we do not see the eye, and we feel no need to find it. But when everything is going against us, then we find the eye. So the avoidance of suffering and the desire to have everything go our own way runs contrary to the whole movement of our journey; it is all a wrong view. With the right view, however, one should be able to come to the state of oneness* in six or seven years—years not merely of suffering, but years of enlightenment, for right suffering is the essence of enlightenment.