In it together, and not alone

We are in it together. We have the same vulnerability. Pain is not personal. It is an intrinsic part of being alive..

Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of pain that was entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, each one of us is part of her heart, and therefore endowed with a certain measure of cosmic pain. You are sharing in the totality of that pain. You are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.

-Sufi prayer