But those moments have given me hope that when suffering comes again into my life, as I know it will, I will be able to be with it and to know an ever present sense of awareness, of being, of joy. I told her and I knew the truth of it as I said it that the thing that keeps me going in this work is not the keeping separate but the feeling the feelings, truly being with people in the pain. Then it melts away. It's the attempting to hold self separate from sensation that causes pain. The more we try to run away from what we label as negative, from pain, from fear, from suffering, the larger and more terrifying it becomes.
Resistance is painful, it is indeed the origin of suffering.
Surrendering to what is is the beginning of experiencing the One. The Dance of Life is the experiencing of all of the things that life brings to us. By experiencing we go through them fully, leaving no trace behind, thus going beyond. It is my fervent hope and, yes prayer, for each of you and indeed for myself, that one day, when fear comes, when pain is felt due to overwhelming loss, that then the rhythm of the dance will bring the awareness, the consciousness of the Oneness of Life, the Knowing that we are part of something so much bigger than ourselves. For then we will truly be able to suffer without suffering.