Hi Open,

The quote from the beginning of the Gateway 4 chapter of the book "Five Gateways" is:

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break that its heart may stand in the sun, so you must know your pain" Khalil Gibran

I never understood this quote, it was 2007 when the book came out and I remember feeling bamboozled by this "shell" thing. As with all things, I let it go and carried on one step at a time, occasionally coming across the "breaking the shell" idea but the truth of it still eluding me.

Now I'm just sitting here laughing my socks off. Yeah, yippee, I finally get it, and its so simple, what a laugh! (At myself) Ha,ha,ha.... And I give thanks for the mirrors who have helped me see it so that now when I read it - I KNOW IT.

Tons of those wiggly smileys that I don't know how to do :0))

With love,
Lesley