How to Grow From Pain - Khalil Gibran

This Khalil Gibran poem from The Prophet is one of the best poems to help with our spiritual growth.

Most of us bicker and complain about the physical and emotional pain in our life, not realizing that it is the key to our happiness.

Kahlil Gibran teaches us that pain is one of our greatest spiritual teachers in life, and that pain has beauty and wisdom that we can appreciate.

First, we dive into this inspirational poem and then we'll take a couple of minutes to distill its wisdom for dealing with pain in our own lives.

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Full Poem:

And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain."

And he said:

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;

And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.

And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility:

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,

And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.

~ From The Prophet