make peace with sorrow
on sadness, grieving, sorrow and the well of tears
make peace with sorrow
Sadness 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
Sadness moves the individual “us” toward the collective “us.”
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
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 m
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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 concer
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