The wound is the doorway
This is a hard one to swallow. This idea that pain could be a doorway to anything. Our pain as humans is the byproduct of separation. Whether it's separation from ourselves, from others, from God. If someone else hurts you, it hurts because there is a part of us that knows that we aren't separate and yet we are behaving as such. It can feel so alienating, so obscene, so devastating. If you hurt yourself, that self-betrayal can be just as distressing. And then, perhaps, it all goes back to the...