Pain: The Secret To Life...

We all bleed in our own ways but it is still blood…

Neo in the Matrix had to confront his fear of pain and go through the pain to be and experience who he truly was, he had to become by going through. Love from Trinity raised him from death and her presence through and on the other side of pain saved him from his darkness.

Life is not possible without pain and pain is not tolerable without love.

(Movie Clip from: The Matrix)

Dr. Kelly Flanagan on his blog UnTangled  writes:

We build our lives around comfort and safety and ease. We feel entitled to painless living. Both physically and emotionally. We will go to great lengths to avoid our interior pain—our sadness, grief, powerlessness, fear, despair, shame, and anger. As Carl Jung said, “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.”

But what is the psychological equivalent of a painkilling pill?

I think we numb our psychological pain with myth.

By myth, I mean the ever-so-slightly deceptive stories we tell ourselves. About ourselves. About other people. About the world we live in. Our personal myths are the beliefs that protect us from the pain of life.*



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