
The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise

This journey to the underworld may last months or years. In the midst of this darkness, we come to realize that “everything has to do with loving and not loving,”80 as the poet Rumi reminds us. This teaching is fierce. It asks us to step fully into a conversation with things that happen in the night, in the dark hours of our lives. Some maturation
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Grief asks that we honor the loss and, in so doing, deepen our capacity for compassion.
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
