“While no one is ever really gone (they live in us, as us), engagement with the tangible is just as sacred and real as our engagement with the spiritual. The people who embrace us, and the physical world that we can touch, see, smell, and taste are not strictly illusions. They are aspects of the Absolute, made manifest. The world and the people in it are the surface of that thing we call God, and loss is a stripping away of that surface. When the stripping away occurs, a presence arrives. That presence is an invitation to embrace our pain, and through that embrace, allow the intangible to embrace us.” DeathDeath And DyingDeath Of A Loved OnePresence Of God Book:The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World Source: The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World