PAIN PURIFIES US!

I surely do not wish that anyone should suffer pain of any kind. Much less would I want to inflict it with malice on anybody. But when it comes, both as sign of our humanity and as a signal warning us of our illusions, pain has to be welcomed.

Down to brass tacks, pain is a very demanding but generous customer. When it comes, it does not leave us alone. It claims for our attention and taxes our very person. But if all the time it was there, we were patient, attentive and generous, it purifies us and makes us better persons. Any person who knows how to suffer pain emerges from the suffering purified, even-tempered and a thousand times more compassionate.

DO YOU FEEL THE PAIN?

"Pain reminds us always that all men are equal"

The young and the old suffer from it, the rich and the poor are visited by it, and the great and the humble are not spared by it. The great can rationalize over it, but the humble knows how to bear it. Indeed, there is no human being who is stranger to pain.


There are those who suffer pain in their bodies. There are those who suffer pain in their hearts. And there are those who suffer it in their minds. Pain is one experience that shouts to our ears how human, how vulnerable and mortal, and how much in need we are of others. Pain, strangely, is one of those things that make people ever so lovable.