Our wounds and traumas are not just a difficult personal inheritance, nor are they meant to be completely ‘healed’ or forgotten. Our physical sense of having been hurt is not only our only true foundation of compassion for others and the pain they carry, but the doorway through which we may fully appear in the world again: a doorway through which we might give our creative gifts against all the odds, a portal through which we will manifest our ideas in good work that takes others into consideration and also, importantly, a pathway by which our own difficulties enable us to change our society for the better.
​-David Whyte