# Our Pain Is a Great Purifier

An episode of [The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521068608), 3 Sep 2026, 6:13.

Audio: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1182776/episodes/19735965-our-pain-is-a-great-purifier.mp3

We all have hard seasons. Stages where the ground on which we stand seems to crumble, nothing seems to be in our favor and the winter seems endless. To know pain, to endure suffering and to feel as though the trial will never end is to be fully human. And to become most intimate with life itself. “A bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul”, though. From what I can tell—and who truly knows the way the world works—that which appears to unmake us is the very season that rebuilds us. Our pain, in truth, becomes a purifier. Difficulty softens us, unmasks us and opens us—allowing the gifts of wisdom, humility and patience to become our new way of being. My latest book “The Wealth Money Can’t Buy” is full of fresh ideas and original tools that I’m absolutely certain will cause quantum leaps in your positivity, productivity, wellness, and happiness. You can order it now by clicking here. FOLLOW ROBIN SHARMA: Instagram Facebook YouTube

## Transcript

I have faced a lot of pain in my life. I've been at the top of the mountain, and I've been in
the valleys of darkness. And I will share with you that I have grown the most through my
difficult experiences. Sometimes people ask me in media interviews, do you have any
regrets? And I always say, absolutely not. Everything that's happened to me was grist for
the middle and fodder for my growth. Everything that happened to me, the amazing
experiences and the most tragic experiences were necessary part of my evolution as a
human being, and I would not trade them for anything. And so I wear my scars with joy.
And respect is badge of honor of a human being who is flawed, trying to do his best. And
I think you should as well. And if you're going through a painful time right now, trust that
everything is happening for the best and this too shall pass. And here's a really
counterintuitive idea. Stay in the difficult experience as much as possible. pain is
purification. Pain is purification. We burn off the dross that covers our gold in the
difficult moments. It is in the difficult times of our life or a difficult day, that you are
being asked to learn empathy and understanding and forgiveness. It is the trials that teach
you how strong you are. It is the adversity and the troubles that make us great. If we
choose not to be a victim but say, I'm going through trouble. How can I use this to
develop forgiveness or understanding about that person who hurt me? Or I'm going
through a difficult day, or a difficult month, or a difficult year? How can I, rather than
complaining about it and becoming bitter, how can I use it to open my heart to become
stronger and to get to know my gifts and my talents? I was once on an airplane flying to
Paris, and I was next to an artist, and he told me, he said, I pick relationship bartenders
who break my heart. And I said, why? And he said, because when my heart is broken, I
do my best work. And it is when we are suffering that we actually can become more
creative. suffering teaches you to become more real. I have gone through the most
difficult experiences of my life, I've always turned to a book by the great Lebanese poet
Kahlil Gibran, and it's called The Prophet. And there's a particular chapter on pain that I
read in those dark times of my life, I want to read it to you. a woman spoke saying, tell us
of pain. And he said, 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 must you know pain. could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of
your life? Your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy, you would accept the
seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your
fields. I want to go off script for a second. A great life is a series of seasons. You have
your painful times. You have your happy times. You have your times where you are
frustrated. You have your times where you're full of energy and inspiration. That's called
human. There's nothing wrong with those emotions of pain and guilt and sorrow. That's a
necessary part to living a colorful, real, beautiful, majestic life. And then Kahlil Gibran
continues, and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. I just
have to read that again, because it's so beautiful, and you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief. Much of your pain is self chosen. It is the bitter potion
by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and
drink his remedy in silence and tranquility. For his hand, though heavy and hard, is
guided by the tender hand of the unseen. the cup he brings though it burn your lips has
been fashioned of the clay which the potter has moistened with his own sacred tears.
Honor your pain. Trust that what you're going through is for your greatness. And stand
strong in the winters of your sorrow, so that when you get to the season of sunlight, you
bring your greatness and your brilliance to a world in need of your gifts and talents.

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