When your pain is deep, all talk of surrender will probably feel futile and meaningless. You will have a strong urge to escape from it rather than surrender to it. You don't want to feel what you feel. What could be more normal? But there is no escape, no way out. There are many pseudo escapes — work, drink, drugs, anger, projection, suppression and so on — but they don't free you from pain. Suffering does not diminish in intensity when you make it unconscious.... When there is no way out, there is still always a way through. So don't turn away from the pain. Face it. Feel it. Feel it fully. Feel it — don't think about it. Give all your attention to the feeling, not to the person, event, or situation that seems to have caused it....Then see how the miracle of surrender transmutes deep suffering into deep peace."
Eckhart Tolle
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