#painisagift

[artiebujanos]

Learn from your pain. It's hurts. I know. It's supposed to hurt. Embrace the pain as a reminder that you're human with feelings and you may want to quit, but you don't quit. Why? Because your life is worth fighting through the pain. Because your family is worth fighting through the pain. Your marriage, your relationship, your children, your friends, your students, your freedom, you name it..its all worth fighting through the pain. This pain is not just a physical pain in the body. This pain can be an addiction, selfishness, pride, ego, doubt, bitterness, anger, negative thinking. Getting rid of all the junk that weighs us down takes time. Take it one day at a time. But don't give up. Keep fighting the good fight! Your Breakthrough is coming champ! #learnfromyourpain #embraceyourpain #embracepain #painisagift #nopainnogain #therock #dwaynetherockjohnson #dwaynejohnson #keepfightingthegoodfight #keepfighting #breakthroughiscoming https://www.instagram.com/p/CSo3smfL5KQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jaimevizcarrondo]

@tombilyeu I'm going to keep this in mind. Others haven't felt pain as I, and I've never felt it the way others have. So no point in comparing... only in learning. #painisagift #leadership #momentum #failfaster #faith #promise #getsome ##getafterit #LetsGo #getafterit #pushforward #tenacity #resolve #indomitablespirit #determination #intensity #persistence #purpose #strength #focus #character #commitment #impact #goals #driven #sticktoyourguns #goforward #NeverStandStill (at Largo, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxsWaM0Hb1j/?igshid=e2htuojj8ax2

[julia-morrison]

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On Beauty

Beauty is a burden for if something if beautiful then it is sacred and must be protected and revered. But what if the burden of beauty becomes too heavy to bear? Are these shoulders strong and wide enough to carry it? 

Something beautiful has happened to me, but I cannot carry it.  

The attendant at the gate told me I was very sweet and beautiful. He said I had everything going for me and not to change.   I said there are only to things that are constant in the universe: change, and pain.

He agreed and wished me well. Pain is a gift, he said.

So here I am: a self conscious being suspended in time and space. In Samsara, in suffering.  

How I dream of a world where pain, bodies, and identity politics reflect only the face of our shared humanity in this absurd and confusing place. If I revealed to you my secrets and blamed my insecurities and inferiority complexes to be the sources of my oppression, would I in doing so, be set free?

Or would I rather, in viewing and embracing them as such, give in to their stealing power and inflict myself further, and with you as collateral? We have to get used to knowing how to harness and transmute the energy that constrains us into the energy that empowers us. We must become the creative force that will fuel our collective and individual freedom and actualization.   

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[cpreas]

Pain is a gift. Merry Christmas!

---MOFFAT