Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Growing Through Pain

The meditation orientation is not about fixing pain or making it better. It's about looking deeply into the nature of pain—making use of it in certain ways that might allow us to grow. In that growing, things will change, and we have the potential to make choices that will move us toward greater wisdom and compassion, including self-compassion, and thus toward freedom from suffering.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn, "At Home In Our Bodies"