Pain Is Grace

There is no pill for the soul’s pain… We can cover it with noise and all the shiny things… but it’s still there… And sometimes… this pain gets so loud… and is knocking so hard on that door of illusion that it tears it down… completely.

I don’t know if this pain is inherited or if it’s acquired along the road… I don’t know if when we first feel it… it’s actually the moment we remember it or if that’s the moment when our perfect… pure heart… cracks.

All I know is that every human being has it… Some hide it… so well… until they completely forget about it. Some of them fight back… and create more pain in that process… But… some of them… acknowledge it at some point and embrace it… like a part of themselves. They stick with it… they dive in it completely and… from all that darkness they arise stronger… wiser… more beautiful… enlightened… complete.

The strange part of living in this world is that every human being craves connection… Right? But that connection is only possible through the gates of our pain… so no one really wants to get there… So they always go right there on the edge of their being… and when they face… that horror of their core being… and when they see themselves in that mirror of that painful truth… they run away… Further and further… backwards. And they wander there… through millions of shallow moments… through that infinite abyss… of illusion… denying every shred of the truth… turning their heads from the light… closing their eyes deeply… just to find themselves again…. empty and astray. And they crave that connection again and again… and they go again there… and so on… until the end of time…

Humanity lacks courage. The courage to face… themselves. The courage to go beyond that pain… and find relief… The courage to truly live their experience here on earth.

So again… I’m telling you… all of you… out there… as Winston Churchill said it… “If you’re going through hell… Keep going.”

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Always. Trust ME!