Monday Mantra 91

December 1, 2014

"The cure for pain is in the pain." - Rumi

Freedom from pain: mind, body, spirit, and emotions, won’t be found running from the source of pain but moving towards it, coming face to face with it and understanding it. Pain’s right hand is fear: fear of failure and loss; fear that we are “not enough;” fear that pain will follow pain if we dare dig deep within; or fear that we are beyond forgiveness, redemption, understanding, or love keeps us away from the CURE within us. Old wounds or covered over injuries, known and unknown, lie at the center of fear and pain. The cure is to expose the darkness of pain to the light of understanding and come to know it for who and what it is. Only then can we make peace with it. Only then do we expose fear and refuse to be victims of the pain that captured our past.