A tragedy is a tragedy.

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Even when it happens to someone else.

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We think we are safe when we are far from conflict.

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Yet a tragedy to one of us is a tragedy for all of us.

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The illusion is that we are separate.

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That we are not affect by another's suffering.

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But that is a lie.

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We are all affecting by all of the suffering around the globe.

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One person's pain is everyone's pain.

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We may not feel it in the moment.

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Someone else's pain may seem far away from us.

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Yet eventually, that pain will come around to us.

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In one form or another.

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We will experience pain.

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Perhaps not the way someone else is, but pain nonetheless.

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This is not a reason to hide from pain.

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For pain is a great teacher.

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It shows us where there is something that needs to be changed.

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The greater the tragedy the greater the lesson.

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And the more freedom we will feel when we are on the other side of the tragedy.

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What challenges us the most about tragedy and pain is the judgment that it is bad.

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Because it is uncomfortable we tend to make it wrong for even existing.

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Yet our lives would not be the same where it not for the pain.

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It would not be there to drive us to change and improve.

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To call us to be better people.

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And to heal our wounds and feel empathy for those in pain as well.

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For when we are in the greatest pain our hearts open to others in pain.

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We can empathize with them for we know what it feels like.

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To lose a loved one, or a home.

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And have our life disrupted in such a drastic manner.

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It is only by experiencing such pain and tragedy ourselves that we can truly understand someone else's suffering.

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When enough hearts open to pain and suffering, there will be a great awakening.

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A great movement in the direction of peace.

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There may never be peace throughout the entire world, but there can be more peace for more people.

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So when we lay down to sleep at night we will know we have done the best we could.

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To alleviate suffering.

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Both ours, and the suffering of others as well.

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Is that not worth the price of experiencing our own pain?

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So what pain and tragedy have you experienced?

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Have you allowed it to open your heart, or to close it?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour