“And I realized that until we have healed, pain is how we bear loss in our bodies. Sometimes we mistake the pain for love, so we hold on to it, we stay there in the darkness, in the valley. Or we think that if it doesn’t hurt, it isn’t love. But when we allow ourselves to move through it and out of it... eventually we heal. And only when we experience the entire journey, through the suffering to wholeness, do we know the full scope of love.”
