Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine.

Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self, so therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.