The Love Hidden Inside Pain
El Amor Oculto Dentro del Dolor
A reflection on how pain, when freed from the overlay of fear, reveals itself as love, and how recognizing our own fears allows compassion to come forward.
The Love Hidden Inside Pain
A reflection on how pain, when freed from the overlay of fear, reveals itself as love, and how recognizing our own fears allows compassion to come forward.
In the suffering, in rejecting the pain, we were choosing a kind of fear that actually prevents this love.
Love in the pain, pain in the love
You said there was a love of the pain, and I relate. There is also a love in the pain, and a pain in the love. When I describe my own experiences, eventually that pain, when freed from the fear, was known as love. It was no longer experienced as pain, because the experience of pain had carried the overlay of fear.
What I am hearing is your heart opening, a love even just for what is right. You are relating to this man and his ability to send out a son. I believe there is truly a relationship with the actual person, even if it comes through an article. But there is also something more. What I am saying is that there is an aspect of what you carry that, I believe, reaches that far. And it also affects something beyond that particular terrible situation, which is the love for what is right, and the indignation for what is not.
Indignation as a form of love
At its essence, that experience of pain and indignation actually is love. And in recognizing your own fears, which you described, you are allowing what you call compassion and love to become more present. You are allowing it to come to the foreground, to manifest consciously.