Not every pain we feel is ours, but everybody benefits from us transforming our relationship to every pain we experience...
"Pain travels through families until someone is ready to feel it." -Stephi Wagner
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This one is one of my favorites.
“The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.” ― Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
Working on our reactions to the emotions we feel is more beneficial than trying to avoid our emotions by acting out on them and/or supressing them.
"But something happens when we build a shell and hide inside it, which is the source of most human complaints. When we cover up our vulnerability so that we’re not open to hurt and pain, fear and influenceability, we also become insensitive to joy, love,...
Whether or not we like it, "It is what it is."
"Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time." Eckhart...