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“Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.”

Feelings Grief Healing Quality Sadness Awareness Profound Depth Threshold

Book:Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying

Source: Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying

“We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.”

Wells Soul Pain Joy Grief Attention Awareness Sorrow Laughter Silly Pay Attention Frightening Expanding Enlightening Soul Work

Author:Matthew Fox

“I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth.”

Thinking Wells Used Found Grief Awareness Prepared Wave Illness Manic Depressive

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal shame, something it seems she would want us to forget (but no one would forget). (Maybe an interesting "discussion question" for readers of Complicated Grief might be, "What do Terry Barton and Miss Havisham have in common?"?)”

“What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.”

Firsts Force My Own Grief Awareness Waste Ocean First Time Weight Indifferent Limitless Boundless Starks Stranded

Author:John Banville

“Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it - grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. […] It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness.”

Feels Littles Individual Lost Causes Loses Grief Steps Destiny Awareness Loneliness Creatures Ultimate Finals Outcomes Cycles Lost Love Living Creatures Love Again

Author:Philip K. Dick

“When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, prepared to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways.”

Way Mother Loses Grief Awareness Daughter Longing Prepared Response Edges Surface Disappear Expected Intervals

Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition

Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition