Whatever you are feeling right now is ok. Whatever the experience of this moment, no matter how harsh, no matter how painful, allow it to be there. Allow it to coexist alongside you, for as long as it will, for as long as it has to.
You may feel the urge to resist it, to wish it away, to ignore it, to overpower it, to deny it. But your avoidance and your resistance will only serve to enhance it, to magnify it. The pain that you feel is nothing more than a cry for help. It is an aspect of your own nature that you are refusing to acknowledge, to recognize. It is an aspect of your own self that you disown each time you recoil from it in fear. And its cries of desperation get louder and louder every time you do.
Your pain, your suffering is not some demonic entity that you need to protect yourself from. It is your own inner child, it is innocent, it is crying out for you to acknowledge it. Be kind to it, be gentle. When grief, when heartache, when frustration beset you, in this moment more than in any other is compassion the only required response. Compassion for that aspect of your self that wants to heal. That is all the pain is ever really about, an opportunity to heal.
Be kind to your suffering, be generous in your acceptance. With healing comes a deeper grounding in that core of peace that is within all of us, which is always available. Grounded in peace, even experiences of great sorrow are seen as the lessons of love that they truly are.
