Just a moment...
It’s needful for the peace of a people, peace of the human heart, peace of the earth, for grief to be there, not transcending on a bliss journey to avoid grief.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
EL DOLOR POSEE UN VALOR HUMANO Y ESPIRITUAL
Marián Rojas Estapé • Cómo hacer que te pasen cosas buenas: Entiende tu cerebro, gestiona tus emociones, mejora tu vida (Fuera de colección) (Spanish Edition)
act of calling back those pieces of the self /soul that have been dispersed or lost, the act of mourning the losses that haunt us.
Gloria Anzaldua • Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (Latin America Otherwise)
A Spanish word for existential anxiety and deep gloom, zozobra also evokes generalized wobbliness: “a mode of being that incessantly oscillates between two possibilities, between two affects, without knowing which one of those to depend on”—absurdity and gravity, danger and safety, death and life. Uranga writes, “In this to and fro the soul suffers
... See moreNaomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Anxiety
is the mask that truth wears when we refuse to stop and uncover its face: the disembodied state I feel when I pretend to put things right by worrying about them instead of conversing with them
is the mask that truth wears when we refuse to stop and uncover its face: the disembodied state I feel when I pretend to put things right by worrying about them instead of conversing with them
The suffering in us demands to be understood.