“Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, “forget it,” or “it will pass,” or “it could be worse” - all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, “It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process.” ThinkingMayFeelingsFacesProcessForgetReadySourceIntegritySorrowDepthPainfulDenyContraryGuidanceTransformedForget ItPainful Experiences Author:Peter Koestenbaum
“I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them, or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds.” BelieveHeartKindProblemI BelieveProcessTeachDutySorrowSolutionsRegardDeeperAll Kinds Book:My Study Fire: First Series Source: My Study Fire: First Series
“The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my own "complicated grief" in on the process. You can imagine how tempting it is to try to fight the part of you that loops and loops, caught up in tangled sorrow from which it seems there's no escape.” WritingTryingImportantBookSeemsFightingProcessSidesMy OwnGriefPiecesImagineSorrowAspectCaughtComplicatedCaught UpObsessiveTemptingLoopsTangledComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen
“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.” StatesTurnsProcessGriefSorrowMapsGrief Observed Book:A Grief Observed Source: A Grief Observed
“Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?” IfsMindMayHelpingJobsJoyNamesProcessLandStupidSorrowDegreesLettersSeriesExtraordinaryDullWearyGood JobSubtletyExtraordinary Beauty Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.” LifeLongMadeRealCharacterProcessStruggleFailingWeekSorrowQuietDecidedSupremeTemptationConquerWrestlingSteadyTrembling Author:Phillips Brooks
“When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.” PeopleHeartChildrenArtCareActionPainTogetherFormJoySocialProcessCommunityCitiesFamilyPovertySadnessCrimeBuildingEmotionalSorrowCreatingAnd LoveTransformationRaisesFoundationLaysMeaningfulGenuineEnormousWitnessEducateSocial ChangeRebirthReadinessBrokennessInner CityMeaningful WorkPain And SorrowBeauty And Love Author:Lily Yeh
“The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . .” HumansLittlesHas BeensJoyCoursesProcessHuman BeingsFantasyCreativePsychologyPiecesFateFiguresSorrowArchetypeRemnantsJoys And Sorrows Author:Carl Jung