Jul 5, 2010

Understanding

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran

What amazing mastery of words did Kahlil Gibran have. The above quote has always intrigued me. with just 12 words Gibran puts into wisdom a question humans seem to ask in adversity: "Why?" or "Why me?" Life is a learning process and we can learn from every situation, but pain especially captures our attention. In living with dementia there is much opportunity to allow the pain to break the shell that encloses our understanding.

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