Pain is Love's Strange Teacher
Pain is Love’s strange teacher
Physical, psychic, mental or emotional pain arises when unconditional Love is not flowing. Love of anything makes life flow and sing about that thing. Love of everything makes life flow and sing about everything. So when you are upset, frustrated, angry or bitter, you are blocking your awareness of the Goodness of something. You are in conflict. You are focused on something you have labeled as bad, worthless, wrong. The Big Picture is lost in tunnel vision. You have given your God-vision and God-power to some circumstance or human opinion. You have noticed the clay feet of your idol. Pain tells you that this idol is not your True Power.
The Great Physician recognizes only one remedy for all human stress and ills: forgive all conditions and love again without conditions. When we do not recognize the Good in our present situation and love it, we become judgmental and conditional with ourselves. We ignore the good and reject our present situation. We demand good elsewhere and we become judgmental and conditional with others and stress occurs again. We must look again and see the good in our situation, release our judgments and then stress will decrease. We must look again at our neighbor and see his good and release him from our judgment. The positive paradox is that when we stop judging about the bad, we become more aware of the Good we love. Love is the source of all good; human judgments are the source of all that seems less than good.
For healing, release all limiting judgments and embrace unlimiting Love. If you see pain as a punishing enemy, you will only fight harder and dig your hole deeper. If you accept pain as your liberating teacher, you may walk out of the hold of human opinions a freer person. Every idol is an imitation of the Real. It offers promises it cannot keep. Your affection for its misleading appearance and promises hides from your mind the source of your pain. Analyze the pain and you will find a cherished but limiting belief/expectation that has failed you. But remember, any limited human good out there is a symbol of the unlimited divine good in here in you.
You must use your pain to realize that “bread alone” will not satisfy your hunger. Augustine tried every “food” on the face of the earth to “feed his appetites,” but finally he realized that “I was restless until I found my rest in Thee.” When you take a bite of bread, take a bite of the Bread of Life in that same moment. When you breathe in air, consciously breathe in the Life-Giving Spirit in that same breath. When you touch your lover, be aware of the Divine Beloved in that touch.
· The Eternal is hidden in every moment of time
· The Spirit is in every breath
· The Good is hidden in every good
· Wisdom is to be found in every piece of information
· A Blessing is hidden in every occasion of cursing
· The Sacred is secreted in every ordinary event
· Christ is contained in every human
· The true God is obscured in every false worship
· Love is to be found in every lust or greed
· Forgiveness and renewal exist in every sin released
· Virtue exists in every vice
· Vision is possible in every limited human sight
· The Word exists every word thought or spoken
· The heavenly light is hidden under every hellish bushel
· A lamb rests in the heart of every wolf
· Truth awaits recognition in every lie
· Healing exists in every message of hurt
· The solution is the heart of every problem
· The answer at the center of every question
· True love at the center of every broken heart
Physical, psychic, mental or emotional pain arises when unconditional Love is not flowing. Love of anything makes life flow and sing about that thing. Love of everything makes life flow and sing about everything. So when you are upset, frustrated, angry or bitter, you are blocking your awareness of the Goodness of something. You are in conflict. You are focused on something you have labeled as bad, worthless, wrong. The Big Picture is lost in tunnel vision. You have given your God-vision and God-power to some circumstance or human opinion. You have noticed the clay feet of your idol. Pain tells you that this idol is not your True Power.
The Great Physician recognizes only one remedy for all human stress and ills: forgive all conditions and love again without conditions. When we do not recognize the Good in our present situation and love it, we become judgmental and conditional with ourselves. We ignore the good and reject our present situation. We demand good elsewhere and we become judgmental and conditional with others and stress occurs again. We must look again and see the good in our situation, release our judgments and then stress will decrease. We must look again at our neighbor and see his good and release him from our judgment. The positive paradox is that when we stop judging about the bad, we become more aware of the Good we love. Love is the source of all good; human judgments are the source of all that seems less than good.
For healing, release all limiting judgments and embrace unlimiting Love. If you see pain as a punishing enemy, you will only fight harder and dig your hole deeper. If you accept pain as your liberating teacher, you may walk out of the hold of human opinions a freer person. Every idol is an imitation of the Real. It offers promises it cannot keep. Your affection for its misleading appearance and promises hides from your mind the source of your pain. Analyze the pain and you will find a cherished but limiting belief/expectation that has failed you. But remember, any limited human good out there is a symbol of the unlimited divine good in here in you.
You must use your pain to realize that “bread alone” will not satisfy your hunger. Augustine tried every “food” on the face of the earth to “feed his appetites,” but finally he realized that “I was restless until I found my rest in Thee.” When you take a bite of bread, take a bite of the Bread of Life in that same moment. When you breathe in air, consciously breathe in the Life-Giving Spirit in that same breath. When you touch your lover, be aware of the Divine Beloved in that touch.
· The Eternal is hidden in every moment of time
· The Spirit is in every breath
· The Good is hidden in every good
· Wisdom is to be found in every piece of information
· A Blessing is hidden in every occasion of cursing
· The Sacred is secreted in every ordinary event
· Christ is contained in every human
· The true God is obscured in every false worship
· Love is to be found in every lust or greed
· Forgiveness and renewal exist in every sin released
· Virtue exists in every vice
· Vision is possible in every limited human sight
· The Word exists every word thought or spoken
· The heavenly light is hidden under every hellish bushel
· A lamb rests in the heart of every wolf
· Truth awaits recognition in every lie
· Healing exists in every message of hurt
· The solution is the heart of every problem
· The answer at the center of every question
· True love at the center of every broken heart
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