it's okay to grieve
many of us are going to mistake the fire of grief or longing for what we cannot have or can no longer have—for problems to be resolved—rather than as evidence of our holy membership in the human condition and an invitation to spiritual transformation.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
Heart break = an invitation for spiritual transformation
Grief is a portal, an altared state, through which we can come to experience more magical understandings of this world and ourselves, as we realize our immersion in a world that is multidimensional, mysterious, animate, always changing.
Mara June • A Grief Spell for Cultivating Enchantment in Disenchanting Times
How can I remember this at time of great distress?
Decolonise grief
Grief is not an emotion.
It’s the way love speaks when she’s teaching us impermanence.
Don’t rush a grieving soul. There are few human experiences that steer us toward the unseen as powerfully as grief.
Nothing returns to “normal.” It returns to... See more
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Sophia Katsaiti
If someone were to tell you that your losses were your passage to a voyage across the sea of samsara, the suffering of illusion, to the land of Nirvana, the bliss of awakening, you would not believe them.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
What if I believe it? Would that make it easier to bear?
Grief can open the door to holy desire, which in turn leads us into the arms of that which we yearn for.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
How to maintain awareness during grief so that we notice our desire and yearning?
Is grief a necessary component in the process?
Grief is not just an emotion—it’s an unraveling, a space where something once lived but is now gone. It carves through you, leaving a hollow ache where love once resided. In the beginning, it feels unbearable, like a wound that will never close. But over time, the raw edges begin to mend. The pain softens, but the imprint remains—a quiet reminder
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