If you’re going through pain now, simply name it.  You are the one who is naming it. You’re not your pain. You’re the one who’s naming it.  Yes, you have to deal with it.  But you’re not your pain. You are more, so much more.  The best way to discover that you are more than your pain is…

—  Gurudevi Nirmalananda

From Gurudevi’s full discourse “Freedom from Pain“