We are like that story of Mary in the Koran. Every one of us has a Jesus within, but until the pangs manifest, our Jesus is not born. If the pangs never come, then our child rejoins its origin by the same secret path through which it came, leaving us empty, without the birth of our true self...
Rumi.
yes birth pangs are the pains
Is this a translation from Rumi? I wonder about that word "pang." To me, it means a small pain.