It grows new feathers and rises, once again, into the sky. The only thing the eagle loses is its feathers. It remains intact. Neither the heat of the sun or the depths of the sea do anything but damage its most external part. They don t hurt him any more deeply than that.
Problems never effect the essence of a person.
The person is always beyond the problem. Problems are difficulties we face in dealing with the world or with relatively external aspects of ourselves aspects of ourselves which are outside our most essential, deepest and authentic sense of identity. Even the most severe health problems pertain only to the body, and although we cannot live in this world without a body, the body is not what we have in mind when we think of essence of a human being. When we realize that our problems do not threaten us in any essential way, it is much easier to rise above them.