Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Pain is immediate, but understanding truth takes a long time.
- In plain terms
- Pain hits fast, but truth takes time.
- What can you take from it?
- Be patient with yourself when accepting difficult truths.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What truth did you accept slowly?
- When did pain arrive first?
Another view
It ignores that sometimes pain prevents truth from ever arriving.
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