Neena Verma Quotes

“The Sun shines on our sorrow and strength alike. Loss and bereavement are not the dead-ends of life. If anything, grief can and does spur growth. Unimaginably painful, indeed. Undoubtedly transformative, nonetheless." - “Grief … Growth … Grace – A Sacred Pilgrimage”, Page xv”

Growth Grief Strength Sorrow Bereavement Grief Quotes Strength Quotes Growth Quotes

Book:GRIEF GROWTH GRACE: A SACRED PILGRIMAGE

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“We all know that a sunflower instinctively knows its source of life-giving energy, and follows it the whole day. Some of us believe that when it is dark and the Sun is hiding, the sunflowers turn to each other, and energize and strengthen each other. This faith is beautiful.”

Energy Dark Sun Strength Strength Quotes Sunflower Life Giving

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“Twilight … Not just a metaphor The metaphor of the ‘spirit’ The confluence of life and death The celestial dance of existential and essential (Page 75)”

Life Death Spirit Metaphor Twilight Celestial Essential Confluence

Book:A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

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“Grief You plunge one in many emotions Betrayal, Despair, Depression, Fear, Anger Grief You are more difficult to face than Death Grief Please let my faith stay stronger than you Grief I so wish you eventually lose out to love (Page 58)”

Love Death Faith Fear Grief Despair Depression Anger

Book:A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

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“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)”

Fear Dark Grief Sadness Loneliness Calling Anguish Let Go Abyss Quotes

Book:A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

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“When one has an urge to say something but wouldn't quite know 'what' & 'how' .. it is better to let it remain unsaid.”

Silence Unsaid Silence Speaks Say

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“Appreciate, Let purpose inspire action, Learn with humility, Go beyond .. all in Here & Now.”

Purpose Inspire Appreciate Learn Here Now

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“Forgetting is not forgetting Forgetting is ‘Letting things pass’ When Existence opens up to Essence And rises above and beyond The path of Transcendence opens Love goes beyond Death The body disappears The person lives In Love And in this Love Remembrance is born (Page 91)”

Love Death Letting Go Essence Remembrance Transcendence Forgetting Death Quotes Forgetting The Pain

Book:A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

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“One is in 'Waiting' Even after it's over Grief comes to stay Never up for closure ... There is no escape ever One is always yearning Grief envelops those Left behind in 'waiting' ... ‘Staying stuck’ in pain Hiding deep in the heart 'Let go' ! Yes, but how To make a new start ... One has to live in the Dark blind ‘Black-hole’ Until Light would grace Rekindling a 'Whole' (Page 49)”

Light Waiting Grief Yearning Light And Darkness Wait Blackhole

Book:A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

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“We wonder at vistas outside .. Yet we pass by ourselves.”

Self Wonder Appreciation

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“Lament invoked love. Woe invoked wonder. Grief invoked grace. Cry invoked celebration. (Page 80)”

Love Grief Wonder Grace Cry Celebration Woe Lament

Book:A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

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“Life, one ultimately learns, is nothing but an eternal cycle of birth, living and death. Nature is in a perpetual dance of impermanence." – Neena Verma, Grief ~ Growth ~ Grace – A Sacred Pilgrimage, Page 11”

Life Death Nature Birth Eternal Life And Death Impermanence Cycle Of Life Dance Of Life

Book:GRIEF GROWTH GRACE

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“When parents die, they leave behind legacy. When children die, they leave behind shattered dreams, which pierce your whole “being” like sharp pieces of broken glass". – Neena Verma, "Grief ~ Growth ~ Grace – A Sacred Pilgrimage", Page 13”

Death Loss Grief Bereavement Grief Quotes Child Loss

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“The crumbling under the ‘cold corpse’ The deadness of ‘mortal separation’ The moaning wails of ‘mourning’ The push to ‘perform rituals’ The spectacle of ‘sorrow’ The goriness of ‘grief’ And The ‘mercilessness’ of the ‘merciful’ Who knows … ‘what’ and ‘why’ Who would ever want to know (Page 34)”

Grief Sorrow Mercy Mourning

Book:A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

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“Death It does not happen to the dead alone Those left behind, die too In parts that would never heal and come back to life (Page 14)”

Life Death Heal Die

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“The dawn broke, but the Sun did not rise that morning. It was a morning of ‘mourning’. (Page 24)”

Morning Dawn Mourning

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“Parent Nothing … No One Prepares a parent to raise the child Nothing … No One Can ever prepare a parent to bear the loss of child”

Parent Child Loss Of Child

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“Grace – the humble, gentle, calm and acceptant human spirit that helps us affirm the dark, and inspires us to seek the light.”

Light Spirit Dark Grace Grace Quotes

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