“Your mind is so powerful that your thoughts can reverse the course of disease/illness.”
Source: CHE-MOment: Life Lessons, Facing Death, and Surviving Cancer (AML M2) Leukemia and beyond. A Medical Rep’s story of how FAITH, POSITIVE ATTITUDE, and EXERCISE can beat the odds.
“जीवनमा गुमाएको कुराको कमी त्यति बेला मर्नेगरी अनुभूत हुनेरै’छ, जब पाएको कुराले सन्तुष्टि दिन छोड्छ ।”
Source: अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]
“Where once I called on her
The garden fence is now in ruins”
“What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?”
Source: The Ministry of Time
“Rewind the Film
I wish I had a film of you.
I’d love to see you move again,
to see the gestures that I knew
when you were here, as we were then,
and know I’d not forgotten what
was true of you and what was not.
I’d watch as if through window panes
and you still moved beyond the glass,
knowing memory remains
although the years and lives must pass,
and from your movements could infer
the unity of what you were.
Perhaps I’d hear your voice again,
if no more than a sound or two,
and know it as I knew it when
we rested on the grass, and you
would close your eyes and feel the sun
as if the end had not begun.
I’d know that what I heard and saw
was not the shadow of my mind
and know you almost as before,
when in the outward form I’d find
the creature that I couldn’t see
or hear, and all you were to me,
as if I felt a wind that blew
across that insubstantial day
or sun illuminating you
because I’ve felt the sunlight play
on flesh, and though the hours pass
had reached the world beyond the glass.”
Source: Voices from Another Room
“When Nyamakeem looked into Sulafa’s anguished face that afternoon, she saw herself. She felt her own heart breaking at the loss of the child, the son of the man who had killed her son. She looked at Sulafa and felt the fire in her heart die.”
Source: A Mouth Full of Salt
“Aspirants open themselves up to a distinctive experience of losing everything without seeming to have lost anything at all.”
Source: Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
“Loss is a wound that never fully heals, a scar that remains etched in our souls.”
Source: The Ballad of Frankie Silver
“There was nothing to say in reply; the silence of grief, of love's bitter failures, fell upon them all.”
Source: Black Cloud, White Cloud
“One of the hardest things about losing my mom at a young age was that everyone else seemed to still have their moms. That feeling of isolation lasted beyond the initial shock and heartache of losing her, and it became even more difficult after I had my own daughter. It felt so cruel that they would never get to know each other. When I was pregnant, I’d often wonder if my baby would look like her. I secretly hoped that my child’s arrival would, in some way, bring my own mother back. Then my daughter was born—with sparkly blue eyes and strawberry blond hair. She was lovely, but she didn’t look a thing like my mom (or me, for that matter). She didn’t really act like her, either. But that was okay! She is an entirely different person, after all.”
Source: You're Mom: A Little Book for Mothers