Universal
Pain
Overcome
any bitterness that may have come
because
you were not up to the magnitude of the pain
that
was entrusted to you.
Like
the Mother of the World,
who
carries the pain of the world in her heart,
each
one of us is part of her heart,
and
therefore endowed
with
a certain measure of cosmic pain.
Sufi
Teaching
Have
you ever known someone who was a truly good person, whose life just
fell apart around them? I have. Watching their sorrow made me wonder,
“What on earth has this person done to deserve this kind of
suffering?” The answer is, 'nothing'. There is so much we cannot
know about the great mystery of life. News clips from the Ebola zone
in West Africa, with hollow-eyed little children in the streets,
having lost their entire family to the disease, simply make me cry.
They don't deserve to live without a mother. No one does. Part of
life on planet earth is difficult to bear.
Pain
is a part of our experience as sentient beings. When we lose someone,
or something we love, it hurts. We also suffer when we see
others in pain, even strangers. Our hearts open up, and we share
their grief. It is the spark of God within us to feel empathy; we can
put ourselves in their shoes and know how we would feel in the same
situation. Sharing the pain of others is a precious human quality; we
don't want to lose it, even though it causes us suffering.
Somehow,
understanding that life holds much joy and much sorrow diminishes the
harshness of it. If we expect some suffering, we are not so
devastated by it. It comes back to acceptance of reality, of life on
its own terms. This is how it is...and this is enough.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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