After mom died, I found great comfort in a medieval Andalusian tale | Psyche Ideas
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After mom died, I found great comfort in a medieval Andalusian tale | Psyche Ideas
That is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing, and no matter how much we find along the way, life amounts to a reverse savings account in which we are eventually robbed of everything. Our dreams and plans and jobs and knees... See more
Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
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Where death touches our lives, it transfigures the inner landscape. Nothing will ever be the same after someone we love has left this world. Whether they drew their last breath at one hundred or never had a chance to draw their first breath at birth, our loved ones who have died seem to teach us the most about being alive.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
Yet the fundamental loss remains—it doesn’t just dissipate—and, in a strange way, I think it can become a magnet for other losses. We come to see we are all simply creatures carrying around our ever-deepening loss. Small griefs seem to collect around the bigger primary grief. I think this realization allows us to become a true human being.
Amanda Petrusich • Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life
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When my mother’s ashes came back from the crematorium, my family spent a couple of days staring at the plastic box that held them. Then we took the box to the old cast iron bridge across the Tamar River. Both bridge and river had been continual companions to her life. I undid a surprising number of layers and poured the ashes into the water below.
... See moreJohn Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
After the death of a loved one, the incoming messages seem scrambled for a while. At times, closeness with our deceased loved one feels incredibly visceral, as though they are present in the room, here and now. At other times, the string seems to have fallen off the board — not shorter or longer than it was before, but simply stolen from us entirel... See more
Maria Popova • Your Brain on Grief, Your Heart on Healing
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When you are mindful of the close interaction between Life and Death, these very moments will reveal themselves to be great moments of pause and reflection. Death’s act of editing your identity is Life’s opportunity to bring forth novel perspectives.
Lawrence Yeo • Death: The Roommate of Life - More To That
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