“Pleasure blocks, but pain clears the way of inspiration. Tagore says: ‘When the string of the violin was being tuned it felt the pain of being stretched, but once it was tuned then it knew why it was stretched’. So it is with the human soul. While the soul goes through pain, torture and trouble it thinks that it would have been much better if it had gone through life without it. But once it reaches the culmination of it then, when it looks back, it begins to realize why all this was meant: it was only meant to tune the soul to a certain pitch.”
~Hazrat Inayat Khan
I felt the pain of loneliness
until I realized the gift of my own company
and learned connection to those I met along the way.
I felt the pain of hunger
until I knew how good food could taste.
I felt the pain of jealousy
until I realized my own worth
Everything that has hurt me
has brought me greater strength.
Every tear I shed
watered the ground I walked on
and nurtured life
Everything that laid me low
ultimately raised me up in truer ways
Every time my heart was sick
healing found its course.
Blessings, G </h4
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Acropolis Shadow by G A Rosenberg
Opening of Ways by G A Rosenberg
This was full of meaning and beauty, resonated and thoroughly enjoyed this 🙂 Many thanks!
I’m glad that it did. You are most welcome
sometimes, opposite force does make us stronger and smarter.
enjoyed the honesty and hope that poetry find its way to your physical life for relief.
Oh the relief is there… it is in understanding the balance that we thrive
Thanks, I needed this right now.
Awesome!!! Hope things have reenergized