We can simply — or complicatedly — let it be.

Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving.

We come to appreciate that this immense present grief is here because of another period in time when we were together with them.

We learn we don’t have to check out to endure.

He said that we cannot chase happiness and expect that we will attain it. Happiness can only arise as a byproduct of a life devoted to the service of others — a view that undermines the very foundation upon which the happiness-peddlers have built their platform.

Biochemically, crying may actually act as a stress-relief valve.

Whatever we decide to do in response to our feeling of loneliness, however, it is done with conscious intention rather than unexamined impulse.

a certain sense, I suspect the bypassing of traumatic grief may be the greatest threat facing humankind today, responsible for immense suffering from addictions and abuse to social disconnection and perhaps even war. When we disconnect from our grief, we disconnect from ourselves. When we disconnect from ourselves, we disconnect from others and

assert that being happy does not mean we do not feel pain or grief or sadness — successively or, often, simultaneously. Sorrow and contentment, grief and beauty, longing and surrender coexist in the realm of sameness.