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If pain were water, the world would drown
-Dennis Prager
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If Pain Were Water, The World Would

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If pain were water, the world would drown
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Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. with grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.
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He knew how to handle pain. you had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. you let yourself sort of move around the outside edge of pain like with cold water until you finally got up your nerve to take yourself in hand. then you took a deep breath and dove in and let yourself sink down it clear to the bottom. and after you had been down inside pain a while you found that like with cold water it was not nearly as cold as you had thought it was when your muscles were cringing themselves away from the outside edge of it as you moved around it trying to get up your nerve. he knew pain.
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