I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
I don't like pain.
I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
Pain is never permanent.
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.