Monday, March 9, 2009

Dealing with suffering


“To be free of pain, we must go to the very end of it.

We must neither resist or resent it....

The suffering becomes a great revelation.

It enables us to see the false supports we have been leaning on.

By dropping them, the truth comes to support us completely.

Everything depends on whether we use our pains wisely.”

~Vernon Howard, The Power of Your Supermind

“And then there is the sense that, in spite of Everything
--I suppose this is the ultimate mystical conviction--
in spite of Pain,
in spite of Death,
in spite of Horror,
the universe is in some way All Right,
capital A, capital R.”

~Aldous Huxley