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as if you were an artist of pain, feeling into pain’s texture, opening to feel its essence.
David Deida • Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex
It involves feeling your fear of emptiness and loneliness, your yearning for love, and your denial of death.
David Deida • Finding God Through Sex: Awakening the One of Spirit Through the Two of Flesh
Mary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul Mate
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Stephen Levine, revered for his pioneering work with conscious dying,
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
“Now that I’m well, the ways in which we survived—alone and together—have stayed with me, and the more I have thought about them, the more they represent a basic and unavoidable paradox about living which is this: though each of us must go through our suffering alone, no one can make it alone. Though no one can save us from our own feelings, not
... See moreEverybody knows it, but almost everybody is deluded into thinking there’s something more to learn, something hidden and esoteric that is revealed only to a special few. Only after years of searching do we find that there’s nothing more to find. Will we be relieved or disappointed? What is there to gain from practice, after all? We realize that our
... See moreBarry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
This is why our grief capacity stays so fragile. We keep skipping funerals for our own lives.