Dr. Antony Theodore Pain Poems

My soul is the home
of a wounded butterfly.

It sings in prayer
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Our hearts and bodies
often give us messages
that we fail to recognize.
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Look at me in your great kindness.
In mercy turn towards me.
Boundless is your kindness.
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Learn to listen to the pain.


Body is a bridge
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Even though when I struggle and grapple
through the ups and downs of life
I will emerge stronger,
more focused and vital.
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When in pain,
breathe slowly and meditate
on a pain that has been troubling you.
It might be physical, or emotional or mental.
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We hear of the futility
of man's fleshly
accomplishments
and the emptiness
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The mystics go through
states of „pleasure and pain".
On its onward journey to reality
these experiences of pain and pleasure
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Emotional pain
HAS to be dealt
with in order
for healing to
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What do we do
with that pain?

How can we get
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Emotional pain
is acute in and
across our world
during these days.
...

Culture tells us to move past
the process of grief quickly.

Take a few days,
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The Holy Cross is
our holy symbol.

It is power in need.
...

We hear it
very often:
'You get out what
you put in and
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Come to Jesus
as helpless in
our pain and
despair.
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Forgiveness is so
much more than
the wrong that
occurred.
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Weeping, we are told
by the Lord, shall
endure for a night
and the welling
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Always remember
we are going
through the same
pain that you are
...

Given the time
and setting of
the novel, PLague
of Albert Camus,
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The world is in pain,
so much pain that
it seems we would
need to blockall
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There is both pain
and pleasure in
knowledge.
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Grieving can be the most
difficult time for people.

Trying to balance
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Emotional pain
is acute in and
across our world
during these days.
...

Truly, our own
escape into
productivity
reflects a core
...

The more I experience
and survive,
the more I find truth
in the commanalities.
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