Yes, exactly. As I meant to say, it's a hard one to step into, to face the pain, and all it entails, as facing it is the first step of many following. And one of those will surely be the "humbling" one (or an ecstatic one, or a terrifying one, whatever) to come to terms with the oneness of it all.
I (of all people) would not be the one advocating avoidance of pain... (haha, what a thought ;) )
Its all a dialectically spiralling Jacob's ladder leading us to (if not Heaven but) the centre of it all.