Your Painful Life Situations Are Because of Grace That Can Liberate You
You attract people and situations that are best for your highest growth — don’t neglect them.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ~ Khalil Gibran
Last year I felt extreme pain in my heart. I could not meet or see my beloved for straight 7 months. My principal driving force in life is love. I felt powerless when I was devoid of that love. Sometimes it wasn't easy to breathe.
For weeks, I cried in excruciating pain. When the pain became unbearable, I sat face to face with my helplessness. I expressed my suffering in every way, not to anyone but myself. It felt like a slow death. I accepted this death and its suffering until I became free of it.
Free from the agony of separation. I realized love was within me all along. For this realization to happen, life gave me an intense test. I could not have gone inside if there was no pain outside.
How often have we listened to the lament — Why do I always attract irresponsible men/women who break my heart? Where is success? How did I never get into the right relations? Why are there endless suffering and sorrow in my life?
