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The Pain of Profundity
When joy illuminates misalignment
“You will be lost and unlost, over and over again. Relax, love. You were meant to be this glorious. Epic. Story.”
— Nayyirah Waheed
When Joy Turns to Ache
It’s a strange thing, the pain that can follow joy.
You have a moment — on a mountaintop, deep in a ceremony, in the middle of a song or a silent morning — when something cracks open.
You see your life differently.
Perhaps with renewed sense of clarity.
You feel love, freedom, connection, God — whatever language your soul knows.
Something aligned. Something that whispered:
This is who you really are.
Highlighting the profundity of coming into contact with an authentic self.
And then… you go ‘home’.
Back to the 3D world of mortgages, deadlines, meal planning, little league and other relational responsibilities…
