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Your Brain on Grief, Your Heart on Healing
“Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve… to live in the world with the absence of someone… ingrained in your understanding of the world… For the brain, [they are] simultaneously gone and also everlasting, and you are walking through two worlds at the same time.”

I Measure Every Grief I Meet: Emily Dickinson on Love and Loss
“‘Tis good — the looking back on Grief.”

Nick Cave on Living with Loss and the Central Paradox of Grief as a Portal to Aliveness
“The paradoxical effect of losing a loved one is that their sudden absence can become a feverish comment on that which remains… a luminous super-presence.”

Seneca on Grief and the Key to Resilience in the Face of Loss: An Extraordinary Letter to His Mother
“All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched.”

Abraham Lincoln on Living with Loss: His Magnificent Letter of Consolation to a Grief-stricken Young Woman
On trusting that time will transmute the unbearable pain of grief into “a sad sweet feeling in your heart.”

The Geometry of Grief: A Mathematician on How Fractals Can Help Us Fathom Loss and Reorient to the Ongoingness of Life
“The distance between here and there is the answer to the wrong question.”

Growing Through Grief: Derek Jarman on Gardening as Creative Redemption, Consecration of Time, and Training Ground for Presence
“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer.”

Elizabeth Gilbert on Love, Loss, and How to Move Through Grief as Grief Moves Through You
“Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love.”

Einstein’s Remarkable Letter to a Grief-Stricken Father Who Had Just Lost His Son
A poignant perspective on “the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.”

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