Lament invoked love.Woe invoked wonder.Grief invoked grace.Cry invoked celebration.(Page 80)
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Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii)
Twilight _Not just a metaphorThe metaphor of the __pirit__he confluence of life and deathThe celestial dance of existential and essential(Page 75)
The crumbling under the __old corpse__he deadness of __ortal separation__he moaning wails of __ourning__he push to __erform rituals__he spectacle of __orrow__he goriness of __rief__ndThe __ercilessness_ of the __erciful__ho knows _ __hat_ and __hy_ Who would ever want to know(Page 34)
We are generally not programmed to imagine death, to handle death, to absorb grief, at least not in the immediacy of things, definitely not when the __hing_ has happened to another person.
Twilight ...Say, who you are !!The dusk before the nightOr the dawn before the light(Page 73)
One is in 'Waiting'Even after it's overGrief comes to stayNever up for closure...There is no escape everOne is always yearningGrief envelops thoseLeft behind in 'waiting'...__taying stuck_ in painHiding deep in the heart'Let go' ! Yes, but howTo make a new start...One has to live in theDark blind __lack-hole__ntil Light would graceRekindling a 'Whole'(Page 49)
Twilight, the only time of the day when the light and dark meet and become one. The bright powerful light of the day, calmly surrenders before the engulfing duskiness of the night. And the dense whelming darkness of the night yields before the surreal dawning saffron of the morning. The only two moments of the day that absolve the difference between __ark and light_. (Page 71)
There are words like __rphan_, __idow_ and __idower_ in all languages. But there is no word in any language to describe a parent who loses a child. How does one describe the pain of __ltimate bereavement_! (Page 50)
Nature does not abandon us. Rather, it helps us in accepting our loss, grief and pain. It stays with us, even cries with us. It gifts us openings, may be more than once, to heal, transcend and re-emerge. (Page xii)
Appreciate, Let purpose inspire action, Learn with humility, Go beyond .. all in Here & Now.
Letting myself fall wasn't easy. It wasn't hard either. It was a calling that I had to honour. I did honour. I took a plunge into my dark abyss. I faced my grief, my fear, my sadness, my loneliness, my anguish, myself. (Page 78)
GriefYou plunge one in many emotionsBetrayal, Despair, Depression, Fear, AngerGriefYou are more difficult to face than DeathGriefPlease let my faith stay stronger than youGriefI so wish you eventually lose out to love(Page 58)
Learn to accept the inevitability of difference between the self-view & others' image of us. Be willing to take this as an opportunity to grow consciousness. Have clarity to know when others' view is projection of their own shadow. Summon courage to endure growth pains. Life is simple.
Death It does not happen to the dead aloneThose left behind, die tooIn parts that would never heal and come back to life(Page 14)
I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death. (Page 94)
ParentNothing _ No One Prepares a parent to raise the childNothing _ No One Can ever prepare a parent to bear the loss of child
Forgetting is not forgettingForgetting is __etting things pass__hen Existence opens up to EssenceAnd rises above and beyondThe path of Transcendence opensLove goes beyond DeathThe body disappears The person livesIn LoveAnd in this LoveRemembrance is born(Page 91)