How we avoid pain and how we can feel new

When we close our hearts, we no longer feel pain. But then again, we no longer feel anything... And that is the problem. Because when we can't feel anything, we can't feel the endless ocean of love that feeds our innate intelligence and capacity to self-regenerate. Open your heart, and you find - first feelings that are perhaps unwanted. But stay long enough in the space to let the emotion move through you... and you will find there is something new.

- The Joyful Warrior