The wound is the place where the light enters you.
— Rumi
Rumi does not romanticise pain. He acknowledges it — the wound is real — and then makes a claim about its function: that suffering creates an opening. Not a silver lining, not a lesson, but an opening. It is through the broken places that something new can enter. This is not a call to seek suffering. It is permission to believe that the suffering you already have is not wasted.
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Maya Angelou“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
C.S. Lewis“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tzu