Break the Shell: Inspirational Quote of the Day

November 12th, 2009

Peace Dove: Photo By Pauline DeForest

Inspirational Quote of the Day

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. 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; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Source: Kahlil Gibran

Accept the Seasons of Your Heart

Joy and pain are both parts of the same coin. Without one the other cannot exist.

I like the analogy of the coin because it is easier to understand. On a coin you have the head, and the tail. You cannot take away the tail and sill have the head.

You can split the coin into the finest width and still you will have a head and a tail. So it is with all things.

The joy…and the pain come in accepting both sides…to really understand that you cannot have one without the other.

We tend to try and avoid pain…pain hurts…but.

Think of love…to avoid it’s pain means to never have loved.

To accept the pain that comes with the incredible joy of love means you can love.

Acceptance is the key and the ability to see both sides at once and as one.

You must let the pain break the shell so that understanding is free to flow and grow and flourish…so that you can truly stand in the sun.

Nick