"Your pain is challenging you. Rise up from your sadness, frustration, and low spirits, and allow the privilege of life's challenges to be your guiding companion. We are all just humble students of the world. What lesson does this painful majesty of life have for you today? The teacher can only provide the lessons, but … Continue reading Your Pain Is Challenging You
Suffering
But A Mermaid Has No Tears…
“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.” ―Hans Christian Andersen
For a Torture To Be Effective…
“For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, with no end in sight. The water falls , drop after drop after drop, like the second hand of a watch, carving up time. The shock of each individual drop is insignificant, but the sensation … Continue reading For a Torture To Be Effective…
Silent Sufferers
“There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.” ―Richelle E. Goodrich
Boiling Point
Fact: I am seriously contemplating ending my life. No one knows what's going on, or cares, but I feel it's important to talk about. I walked away from self-harm at least a dozen times last week, maybe more. I have no strong desire to actually carry it out, but we cannot "cure" the thoughts that … Continue reading Boiling Point
Nobody Will Protect You From Your Suffering
"Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love … Continue reading Nobody Will Protect You From Your Suffering
I Am Bigger
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things; sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key. —Charles Fletcher Lummis
Out Of Suffering We Emerge
"Pain is like a healing emotional fever. Allow your pain to cleanse you and burn away what needs to die. A new and better you will grow from the ashes. The most important parts of your life will be marked by pain. Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were … Continue reading Out Of Suffering We Emerge
The Most Beautiful People…
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not … Continue reading The Most Beautiful People…
We Can Ignore…
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.... No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. … Continue reading We Can Ignore…
Written by LISA MARINO-Molchanova 