Quotes to share - Pain
"Pain can't be avoided.It's as natural as joy."
( Anonymous )
"People have a need to feel their pain. Very often pain is the beginning of a great deal of awareness. As an energy center it awakens consciousness."
( Arnold Mindell )
"The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain. By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it. We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us."
( Matthew Fox )
"There is no pain quite like that of a broken heart. But a broken heart is an open heart. When we allow ourselves to be broken, a gentle transformation takes place."
( Douglas Bloch )
Our culture teaches us how to numb and distract ourselves but not how to listen to our pain and learn from our difficulties. Think what we learn about pain from television. We learn that pain is to be avoided at all costs and that there are a variety of pain relievers for every conceivable pain. I would like to see a commercial that says, "Your pain is a great teacher. Learn from it and be healed."
( Bernie Siegel )