make peace with sorrow
on sadness, grieving, sorrow and the well of tears
make peace with sorrow
“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts
... See moreSadness moves the individual “us” toward the collective “us.”
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Yet the fundamental loss remains—it doesn’t just dissipate—and, in a strange way, I think it can become a magnet for other losses. We come to see we are all simply creatures carrying around our ever-deepening loss. Small griefs seem to collect around the bigger primary grief. I think this realization allows us to become a true human being.
Amanda Petrusich • Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life
everything within our physical, mental, and emotional experience that is unfamiliar or uncomfortable is actually what God is for us, winking at us in a language we cannot yet speak. To awaken fully to this language, and to be able to converse fluently in it, requires feeling what is happening to us in each moment without judgment, agenda, or
... See moreMichael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart
In the aftermath of the tragic, when silence or “being with” or an embrace may be the only appropriate responses, then only embodied presence will do. Its consolations are irreplaceable.
L. M. Sacasas • Impossible Silences - The Convivial Society
What do I need to let go of right now? What do I need to release? What am I finished with? What is finished with me? What will happen when I let go? Am I afraid to let go? Why am I afraid? What's holding me back?
Janet Conner • Writing Down Your Soul: How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within
A more evolved relationship to ourselves—of the kind psychotherapists seek to promote—can assuage the itch to deliver upbeat messages by prompting us to make our peace with sorrow. Someone might say that they are sad and we could in time learn simply, and more helpfully, to answer, “I hear you.” Another might insist, “Everything is awful,” and we
... See moreAlain de Botton • A Therapeutic Journey
Sadness moves the individual “us” toward the collective “us.”
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
