“At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face the fact that we don’t know, really, where we are, how we got here, how long the pain will last, or how to move past it. That uncertainty may be the most painful part of not knowing a God: no one is there to reassure us that a God will take the pain and confusion away. We simply don’t know. And we have no way to numb ourselves or to forget the condition we’re in.” KnowsWayMayLongFactsSeemsPainLastsPastFacesMovingLossForgetKnowingConditionsSorrowComfortDespairHarderPainfulGods WillConfusionUncertaintyTemporaryNot KnowingBehaviourNumbHis Loss Author:Marya Hornbacher
“This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.” IfsStillsPastWaitingHoursPrayerLossMinutesIllusionInheritanceCompoundsCalendarsUnfinishedRosary Book:99 Poems: New & Selected Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected
“For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.” KnowsPastUnderstandingBornLossGenerationsForgottenCreatorWillingnessPsychologist Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“Go to a nearby military cemetery and look at the American flags stuck on each grave and think of the person buried there who was killed for global domination or for the blunders and egomania of our leadership. And remember, for every person buried there, 10 more loved that person and were shattered by the loss. Instead of saluting, softly say: 'I'm sorry.' ... We need to make Memorial Day a relic of the past.” ThinkingNeedsLooksPersonsWarPastRememberLossMilitarySorryStuckGravesBuriedFlagsI'm SorryDominationMemorialShatteredMemorial DayCemeteryBlundersRelicsMilitarismAmerican FlagEgomania Author:Cindy Sheehan
“Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of these can compensate for the loss of vitality only research provides.” HeartPastLossPositionGreatnessResearchAccomplishmentPrizeVitalityNobelNobel Prize Book:Women in Science: Then and Now Source: Women in Science: Then and Now
“The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.” KnowsWorldSoulRunningActionPastLyingOpportunityLossKeysShadowWideAttractionScholarMy ThoughtsGrudgeTumult Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson