Thank you. "Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace" must simply mean deep acceptance of whatever is happening in the moment. I will be meditating on this phrase in hopes to find deeper resonance and understanding.
I often wonder how the Dalai Lama or Mother Theresa would handle having an alcoholic/addict son or daughter . . . I stopped Buddhist monks on the street once and asked them "How does a mother let go?" They looked at me, dumbfounded. I gave them my phone number and asked them to call me when they had an answer. Never heard from them. Years later I deduced that being a mother must just entail karma. Same would be true of other relationships.