--- title: "4 Embracing Pain Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 4 Embracing Pain quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Embracing Pain sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a6/john-bradshaw-2227_groups_recovery-begins-with-embracing-our-pain_9460.jpg" --- > [Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bradshaw/recovery-begins-with-embracing-our-pain-and-taking-the-risk-to-share/) [John Bradshaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-bradshaw/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a6/john-bradshaw-2227_groups_recovery-begins-with-embracing-our-pain_9460.jpg) > [“There is a great loneliness of spirit today. We’re trying to live, we’re trying to cope in the face of what seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-robbins/there-is-a-great-loneliness-of-spirit-today-we-re-trying-to-live-we/) [John Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-robbins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/354/john-robbins-13829_depression_there-is-a-great-loneliness-of-spirit-to_495937.png) > [“Embracing pain strengthens the will; embracing crying heals the soul; embracing melancholy deepens insight and perception; embracing boredom fosters creativity and imagination;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sov8840/embracing-pain-strengthens-the-will-embracing-crying-heals-the-soul/) [Sov8840](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sov8840/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76b/sov8840-28877_accept_embracing-pain-strengthens-the-will-embr_1685808.jpg) > [“In the face of it, we are powerless. All recovering persons come to a turning point in their lives precipitated by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bradshaw/in-the-face-of-it-we-are-powerless-all-recovering-persons-come-to-a/) [John Bradshaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-bradshaw/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fc/john-bradshaw-2227_addiction_in-the-face-of-it-we-are-powerless-all-r_2139713.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/embracing-pain/#itemlist", "name": "Embracing Pain Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. 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When that tension arises, we feel pain, we feel anguish at the very root of ourselves, and then we cover that over, that grief, that horror, with all kinds of distraction – with consumerism, with addictions, with anything that we can use to disconnect and to go away. We’ve been opening ourselves to the grief, to the knowing of what’s taking place, the loss of species, the destruction of the natural world, the unimaginable levels of social injustice and economic injustice that deprive so many human beings of basic opportunities. And as we open to the pain of that, there’s a possibility of embracing that pain and that grief in a way that it becomes a strength, a power to respond. 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