Your Pain Becomes Your Cure
“One day your heart will take you to your Lover.
One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved.
Don’t get lost in your pain,
know that one day your pain will become your cure.”
- Rumi
This quote speaks to me so deeply, especially when it comes to the ascension journey and the sacred union path.
In my novel, East of Everywhere, I have this passage that never made it into the final edits. In the story, the main character is reflecting on her current experience and wondering if a different choice could have led to a better path:
"If there’s one choice, surely there has to be another, and maybe that stretches on into infinity where there are thousands of possibilities. What makes us choose one way over another? Is there a better or worse choice or is everything just as it is and it all leads to the same place? Sometimes I wonder where I would be if I had chosen differently in this moment and all the thousands of moments leading up to it."
Don't we all wonder this at some point?
When we look back at our lives, it's easy to ask ourselves what would have happened if we'd been just five minutes late or early for an event, if we'd turned left versus right at the fork in the road, if we'd chosen x over y at some critical point in time.
We think we missed an opportunity, we made a mistake, we chose wrong and there could be something better...
Or maybe there could be less pain.
But from the Universe's perspective, everything is perfect for us at every given moment, and when we're listening to our intuition--the heartbeat of our soul--we can never be off-course. Even in the moments wherein we choose ego over our own soul's guidance, we are learning not just from the physical experience that comes from our choice but how to value the wisdom of our soul over that of the ego.
On this ascension journey, we recognize that everything is growth…
Even pain.
Through these lessons, the Universe continues to guide us and support us back into alignment of our soul's highest path.
No matter the past choices you made that led you to where you currently are, here you are in the present moment. This present moment is your perfect moment because it's now your point of power--where you get to make new choices, subtle and small though they can be, to align to a newly created future.
Don’t get lost in your pain…
(This soul saying was originally shared January 24, 2022 by Susan Dawn)