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As we go through our own emotional healing for our own sake, that past event now begins to take on a different meaning. Our Higher Self begins to create a new context for it. We can see the hidden gift. We can end up acknowledging with gratitude that it gave us a new opportunity to learn, to grow, and to acquire wisdom.
David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
Pain has been my greatest teacher in life. If it weren’t for pain, there would be none of this art that you see. Pain has allowed me to know my self. To know God. To understand others and have more compassion. Less judgment and more love. Pain has caused me to search the deepest parts of my being so that I could see what is beyond the pain. Sometim... See more
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“I wish I could say you get used to people dying. I never did. I don't want to. It tears a hole through me whenever somebody I love dies, no matter the circumstances. But I don't want it to "not matter." I don't want it to be something that just passes.... See more
“My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. A
Why All Love Stories Are Destined to End in Tragedy
In the clarity that followed, I discovered another lesson: creation cannot emerge without confronting death. Standing at the edge of the void, something new can be born. In accepting my mortality—both its inevitability and proximity—something within me softened, creating space for something unexpected. Death strips away what no longer serves us, cl... See more
Steven Schlafman • 45: A Year of Death and Creation
“Grief, by its nature, is cyclical. It gives us the promise of peace at its end.”
When you recognize that you will thrive not in spite of your losses and sorrows, but because of them, that you would not have chosen the things that happened in your life, but you are grateful for them, that you will hold the empty bowls eternally in your hands, but you also have the capacity to fill them?
THE WORD FOR THAT IS HEALING.
cheryl strayed • Brave Enough
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I’ve come to also see grief as part of the everyday experience of being human in a world that is both good and cruel. In this sense, grief is a constant for us. It is a real and right response to our vulnerability.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
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