“There’s a difference between pain and suffering. See, pain is in the body. Suffering is in the mind and it feels infinite. So maybe the key is to feel your pain and learn from it, and someday your suffering might disappear.”
~ Charlie Harris, Saving Hope
Love this quote from last night’s episode of Saving Hope. It reminds me of the Buddhist proverb, “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
No one gets through life without experiencing pain – physical, emotional, spiritual or otherwise. But to suffer is a choice. Paradoxically, the shortest path to releasing your suffering is the dark journey into and through your pain.
Dream 2/10/11 Soon to Be Free Cameron is in my dream, in some kind of detainment center. They are going to be letting him out soon. There is a gap in the wire fencing through which I joyfully hug and kiss him. We talk a little (I don’t remember upon waking what was said). I urge him to be careful – not to blow his chance to be free. I feel he is still a bit of a scoundrel. ~~
Cameron is my son, who died of a drug overdose May 3, 2004. I cannot even express how amazingly happy I felt in the dream. It was so nice to be happy and hug him so tight. So much better than those early dreams where I was so angry at his leaving that all I could do was argue with him or turn my back. I feel that we have healed so much. I am not sure what the idea that they are letting him out soon means. A medium told me recently that he’s coming back soon – getting a new body. Maybe so.
I looked for a song to go with my dream art, and found this one (which I’d not heard before). I’m pretty sure Cameron led me to it to try and tell me what it’s like over there. I love the lyrics, and the rhythm. Be free, Cameron. Be free.
Free
by Stevie Wonder
Free like the river
Flowin’ freely through infinity
Free to be sure of
What I am and who I need not be
Free from all worries
Worries prey on oneself’s troubled mind
Freer than the clock’s hands
Tickin’ way the times
Freer than the meaning of free that man defines
Life running through me
‘Til I feel my father God has called
Me having nothin’
But possessing riches more than all
And I’m free
To be nowhere
But every place I need to be
Freer than a sunbeam
Shining through my soul
Free from feelin’ heat or knowing bitter cold
Free from conceiving the beginning
For that’s the infinite start
I’m gone – but I’m still living
Life goes on without a beating heart
Free like a vision
That the mind of only you can see
Freer than a raindrop
Falling from the sky
Freer than a smile in a baby’s sleepin’ eyes
I’m free like a river
Flowin’ freely to infinity
I’m free to be sure of
What I am and who I need not be
I’m much freer – than the meaning
Of the word free that man defines
Free – free like the vision that
The mind of only you are ever gonna see
Free like the river
My life goes on and on through infinity
