“If you are not willing to feel and experience the pain of your life you will never know peace fully. We cannot have one without the other and if you resist pain then you cannot embody peace. You will only have glimpses and then fall back into the darkness. True peace comes from the understanding that pain is necessary, not a punishment. Can you see pain today as an opportunity to grow and change? It is only by changing to this perception that you can begin the journey to lasting peace.”