“Pleasure blocks, but pain clears the way of inspiration. When the string of the violin was being tuned it felt the pain of being stretched, but once it was tuned then it knew why it was stretched. So it is with the human soul. While the soul goes through pain, torture and trouble, it thinks that it would have been much better if it had gone through life without it. But, once it reaches the culmination of it, when it looks back, it begins to realize why all this was meant: it was only meant to tune the soul to a certain pitch.”
~Hazrat Inayat Khan