For those children and 'adults' who feel pain

by Friend
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Remember, "I am not my pain". I am not my pain anymore than I am the wound on my knee or the blister on my skin. And I can talk about my pain—that shows that I am separate from my pain. When the pain is immense it tries to overwhelm me, but it is not 'me'.

Nor am I my pleasure. 'I' am actually greater than pain or pleasure. I can talk about both, see both working around me. I do not detest them; they are doing what they love to do.

So watch them as you watch the sparrows flutter and the insects buzz. As you learn to watch them, you can grow to be amused by them. And you grow beyond them—to be you.

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