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On Pain
\nKahlil Gibran<\/i><\/p>\n
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
\nEven as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
\nAnd could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
\nAnd you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
\nAnd you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.<\/p>\n
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
\nIt is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
\nTherefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:
\nFor his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
\nAnd the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"