No Pain, No Gain.

I've come to believe this to be true. It's obvious when doing something physical but what about emotionally and spiritually? Unfortunately our society is set on removing pain as quickly as possible.

Taking a pill to mask the pain has become the norm.

The problem is that it does not address the cause. If you have smoke in your house, you're not going to look for something to remove the smoke, you're going to look for the fire. Once you put the fire out at the source, you're going to figure out why it happened in the first place so that it does not happen again.

Why don't we do this with ourselves?

As Rumi was quoted saying, "The wound is the place where the light enters."

Pain is not a bad thing. It's a signal. It's never about removing the pain, it's about working with it. It's a good thing.

Feel it. Work with it. Learn from it. Change with it. But whatever you do, don't cover it up. Your life will never be the same again.