Tag: pain

Quote of the Day – October 5 2012

““It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk”

 

It seems part of existence. If we’re fortunate we learn from our pain and from the lessons and road blocks we put in our path. Of course we put the easy kind gentle stuff in our path as well. According to Don Juan Matus as described by Carlos Castaneda, a warrior sees neither blessings nor curse but sees everything as a challenge. Perhaps warriors learn from it all. After all, our happiness brings lessons and challenges as well, It gives us perspective, endurance and perhaps makes the painful parts that much easier…
Blessings, G

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Sixties Sun by G A Rosenberg

 

Faded Rose by G A Rosenberg<

Quote of the Day – September 9 2012

“Love is luxury. It is abudance. It is having so much life that you don’t know what to do with it, so you share. It is having so many songs in your heart that you have to sing them-whether anybody listen or not is irrelevant.”

OSHO

 

I want to feel like that all the time

 

what’s stopping you?

 

well there’s…. hmmm … then there’s hmmmm.

 

I’ve heard you walking around. You’re always singing. You have more music in you than you have ever known what to do with. I’ll let you in on a little secret. It’s not just you. We all have that music in us. Oh, so people tune it way down… and some ignore it but it’s always there. The more you learn to listen to the music of your heart, the more love you’re capable of showing. Oh you’ll show other things as well. Sometimes there’s a lot of pain to get through before the love flows openly. That’s where the music comes in. You don’t even have to sing to get it out, any form of self-expression will do, music just seems hard-wired into most of us. Pretty good deal too…

Blessings, G

 

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Tarot V-The Hierophant by G A Rosenberg

 

Escherian Torch by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – September 5 2012

“People only ask questions when they’re ready to hear the answers.”
― John Irving

If we accept that we only question the things that we’re ready to learn than perhaps it is time to ask. Why do so many cause themselves needless heartache and how can I help make it better? Why do some people believe that they are chosen by God and so are more deserving ? How do we cure them of their madness and heal the damage they have caused? How can I lose judgement but keep love? How can I overcome my own blindness? What is the next step and how can I find the courage to take it? What is utopia and how can I help build it?
I feel ready for these answers and so many more….
Blessings, G

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Bowed but Not Beaten by G A Rosenberg

Mandala in a Storm  by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – May 12 2012

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding… And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy”
― Khalil Gibran

When I was quite a bit younger I had an amazingly wise friend Delores. She told me that she gained her perspective due to the many health crises that she had. One day I was bemoaning my life and all my problems to her. I was having the usual problems relating to my father and deciding what I wanted to do with my life. She listened patiently until I summed it all up with one question.

“Why Me?” Sometimes I believe that question is one of the most common ones that us humans use. What Delores answered floored me.

“Why not you?”

“Huh?”

“Why not you? Why should you be so special that you shouldn’t have your share of problems and difficulties, your share of heartbreaks and pain. That’s what you should be asking.”

I think Delores intuitively understood what Kahlil Gibran was saying here. Pain is part of our lives and to deny it is to deny life’s full experience. Indeed our pain always tells us something. Either a part of our body needs to be attended to or possibly even a part of our attitude or a part of our life. Pain in any of those cases is the best early warning system we have. There are also times when pushing past our pain, accepting it and moving forward brings lessons to us that can’t or won’t come any other way.  I know that very seldom in my life have I learned things the easy way. Friends and I have discussed whether it is possible to learn the big lessons we need in a gentle way and always end up either shelving the question or deciding that somethings are meant to be learned through that great teacher, pain.

Blessings, G

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Blue Marbled Hallway by G A Rosenberg
Glowy Caterpillars eating my Lettuce  by G A Rosenberg

Blue Marble Cathedral by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – April 17 2012

“Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give. It is then generosity on their part.”
–Kahlil Gibran

Sometimes we expect so much from one another. We forget that as we have been wounded, others bear wounds also. Perhaps we don’t have them in the same place but of this I am sure. Noone has come through life unscathed. I have learned so much from what others have had to deal with and the courage with which they dealt with it. I have seen single mothers of Kids with severe disabilities working to bring out that extra smile for their child at the end of the day. I have seen survivors of so much pain looking and finding joy and sometimes not. Sometimes we do reach a part of our cycle where we don’t have it to give anymore or to use Gibran’s metaphor when we’re out of fish. We may then, in trying to have the interaction communicate our frustration or our weariness because that is what we have. I have been learning to appreciate honest communication even when it is that of pain. Because once that is gone, healing can happen. Call it a restocking of the river.
Blessings, G

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Lizardart by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 10 2012

“Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”
— Joseph Campbell

I fully believe that we choose to be happy. Perhaps insanely, when life gets difficult as it tends. So often I see people who choose to wallow in what goes wrong in their lives, what gives them pain and when they can’t find something recent, they jump into their past to find reasons to be sad or mad. Do they feel they don’t deserve happiness? That’s bullshit. Why would we have this capacity for joy if we weren’t meant to use it? Even the pain in our lives can be enjoyed by the witness both for the experience and as something that expands our capacity for joy. Namaste

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Reaching Out or In? by G A Rosenberg

Tempered by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – September 24 2011

““Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding… And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy”
― Khalil Gibran

and so I find my shell breaking. Feeling pain and working on finding the good in it. If not the good, at least trying to find meaning from what i feel wound me. I find the pursuit of this leading me into a profound understanding of sorts. -GAR

Click on image to see full-sizeBlessing in a Fragmented Garden by G A Rosenberg

Pain Shoes by G A Rosenberg

I wanted to understand
so I put on those pain shoes
and let you transmit your experience
directly into my being
You used words but I felt meaning
and while i tried to integrate
another’s excruciating existence
you kept on speaking
way beyond need
“I get it, I feel it”
but so accustomed to
ignorance you continued…

If you would stop
I could rid us both
of this…
these shoes hurt my feet
and yet knowing this you still continue
a litany of woes
the tale of everyone and anything
that you felt had done you wrong
beyond any forgiveness
Finally I realized
you don’t want to lose your pain
you don’t wish understanding
and you hate me for presuming to help
How dare I try to take away what makes you real to yourself?

I smile sadly
as the shoes slip off….
Another mile in another’s moccasins…
Another mile in my own….

Earned Pain Understanding

Please don’t take away my pain
I’ve earned it
I’ve walked through the fire
I’ve felt the burn
I needed to
How else could I understand the pain of others?

If you feel friendship towards me
let me have this.
Tell me “It get’s better”
even “I’ve felt it too”
but don’t try to remove this hurt from me
just understand
I asked for this lesson
I brought myself to this
so that I would know this feeling
and am grateful

When you feel the fire
I’ll be there for you
for that is what we’ve built
Sharing tears, joy, pain and laughter
building understanding
evolving

One day I won’t need this
but for now
leave this to me
It is as much a part of me
as the joy I’ve felt
ant the love we share.