One learns of pain of others, by suffering one’s own pain, my father would say, by turning inside oneself, by finding one’s own soul.
And it is important to know of pain, he said,
~Chain Potok

One beautiful benefit of pain and suffering is if I choose to feel my pain, as horrible and overwhelming as it is at times, sit in it, let it go deep into my heart and soul, try not to escape or hide from it, but feel it and grieve….

Then, I find I am able to do that for another.

When I can do that for another, there is something so beautiful, so real, rich and sacred that happens

That to me is beauty for ashes