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
There is a danger in believing the death phase of the cycle might be perpetual—that we may never feel alive again. Grieving and railing against our losses is necessary, but when we are ready, we must actively turn toward that questing field and actively imagine a new way forward.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
When you lose a loved one, you suffer. But if you know how to look deeply, you have a chance to realize that his or her nature is truly the nature of no birth, no death.
Thich Nhat Hanh • No Death, No Fear
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
That was the watershed decision I had to make concerning Rafe nearly twenty-five years ago: do I process his death according to World 48 or according to World 24? All around me the psychological and traditional spiritual models were unanimously advocating closure, “grief work,” “letting go,” “getting on with my life.” Something inside me said to ke
... See moreCynthia Bourgeault • Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm
Suppose that the earthly lives she and I shared for a few years are in reality only the basis for, or prelude to, or earthly appearance of, two unimaginable, supercosmic, eternal somethings. Those somethings could be pictured as spheres or globes. Where the plane of Nature cuts through them—that is, in earthly life—they appear as two circles (circl
... See moreMartin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
One way of comforting the bereaved is to encourage them to do something for their loved ones who have died: by living even more intensely on their behalf after they have gone, by practicing for them, and so giving their death a deeper meaning.