PAIN

"As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it." ~Eckhart Tolle


One of my favorite blogs is Storybooks for healing. They post on FB often and I find the many of their quotes and thoughts tug at my heartstrings and say things that I had not yet found words for. This was one. Grief. Pain. In whatever form it has taken in your life, does not define who you are. In my case letting it define me could benefit me in some ways. . . Remembering the moments, the people, the event, and the lessons are very important and are partially responsible in molding us into who we are today and to acknowledge and to be grateful for that is very important. For we are not the same people that we were last year, the year before and the year before that. We change day to day and especially after traumatic experiences. But to let pain define who you are daily, is suicide for the soul. The balance of remembering the pain and sorrow that refines you, while not letting it define you is a delicately complex and ongoing journey... Pain will always be present. It will always hurt. It will be a part of creating you. But IT is NOT YOU.

Happiness is not found until YOU ARE.