“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."
- Mary Oliver
Annie Altmanx.com“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift." - Mary Oliver
I call these experiences our dark teachers. The lessons that hurt, scare, scar, wound, and almost destroy us are very often the things that make us who we are because they require us to muster what we thought we could not muster—courage, compassion, kindness, forgiveness, love, resilience, strength, generosity of spirit, ferocity of heart. The time... See more
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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
At the most profound and true level, people who have hurt us the most can offer the greatest gifts.
Mary Morrissey • Brave Thinking: The Art and Science of Creating a Life You Love
This is a precious gain that comes with loss. This is a tender sweetness that comes with grief: appreciation.