“Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of
healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and
experiencing them can we do something about
them.” -- Bob Hoffman
“Wounding … opens the heart for compassion.” --
Andrew Schneider
“You know quite well, deep within you, that
there is only a single magic, a single power, a
single salvation ... and that is called loving.
Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist
it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion
that hurts, nothing else.” -- Hermann Hesse
“True healing means drawing the circle of our
being larger and becoming more inclusive, more
capable of loving. In this sense, healing is not
for the sick alone, but for all mankind.” --
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“Letting go of our suffering is the
hardest work we will ever do. It is also the
most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves
in a new way -- in the newness of each moment
where all is possible and nothing is limited
to the old.” -- Stephen Levine
When we are
suffering due to illness, injury or abuse,
it’s easy to feel victimized. “Why me?” we
cry.
We take the first step to healing when we open
to the possibility that there is a reason, a
purpose for our suffering. We are being
invited to learn something about ourselves and
pain has a way of demanding our attention!
The path to healing requires us to move into
our pain, not push it away, so we can receive
its message. When we are willing to truly
experience what we are feeling, we usually get
information about why it’s there. If we ask,
“What am I to learn from this?” chances are
that an answer will come. And the answer will
always have something to do with giving or
receiving love.
“Every human being must go through the
process of being wounded in order to expand
one’s consciousness into greater wholeness.”
-- Andrew Schneider
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