Is love the stepping stone to healing? Or is healing the stepping stone to love?
When we love, we begin to heal; when we heal, we can start loving ourselves and others more fully.
Imagine you were in despair and had a chance to speak with God.
What would you say?
Despair and depression are the best friends of pain, and life can sometimes seem hopeless for those who suffer chronically.
Every day wake up knowing exactly how the day will unfold before it even starts.
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Knowing that all day will be a struggle. A struggle that no one can understand, and because of that, the person in pain isolates themselves from the world. Not because they don't want to be around others but because they can not concentrate on anything other than the pain.
Feeling as if you are just waiting around to die. This belief is reinforced by shoving handfuls of pills into your mouth like Halloween candy. Do these three or four times throughout the day to remind your brain of your status (in case you forget).
That was the life I lived during a dark night of the soul that lasted for a decade until I did have a conversation with God. I pleaded with her, 'If you heal me, I will spend the rest of my life helping to heal others. I can still feel the pain, but I am no longer suffering.
I stopped taking pills (33 a day) and started to love myself and others. When we choose to love and serve others, genuine healing takes place.
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Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2- "I”
Impermanence
"Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't
struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality."