technologies for grief
grief, like a welcome rainstorm on parched sand, is not an illness, but a primordial institution of the human soul.
Martín Prechtel • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
On the one hand, I want to encourage you in your grief, so that you may fully experience it in all its depth. For as an encounter with a new intensity, it is a profound experience of life and leads you back toward life again, as all things do that reach a certain degree of extremity.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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
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
and animate world. It was through the dark waters of grief that I came to touch my unlived life.... There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive. Through this, I have come to have a lasting faith in grief.
—Francis Weller
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