Bereavement Collection
FW74
"Our rewards will be will be manifold and come when we least expect them."
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
FW77
"I didn’t trust it for a moment, but I drank it anywayt, the wine of my own poetry. It gave me the daring to take hold of the darkness and tear it down and cut it into little pieces."
Lalla
FW78
"When you see yourself and another as One being, when you know the most terrible night as One moment, then awareness is alone with its Source."
Lalla
FW81
"Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary lives."
Pema Chödrön
FW84
"Where I thought I’d find deep anguish I found instead a portal to God."
Rashani
FW89
"One is, in their own Self, the wanderer, the exile, the home-coming and the home."
Ma Anandamayi
FW90
"When by the flood of your tears the inner and outer have fused into one, you will find Her whom you sought with such anguish, nearer than the nearest, the very breath of life, the very core of every heart."
Ma Anandamayi
FW92
"Death is a bridge whereby the lover rejoins the Beloved."
Rabia
FW94
Rashani
"The deep emptiness of saying goodbye becomes the doorway of awakening.."
FW95
Adyashanti
"First there is a miracle. Then there is no miracle, then there is."
FW96
Rashani
"There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is a sorrow beyond all grief which leads to joy and a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength.
There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass with each loss, out of whose darkness we are sanctioned into being. There is a cry deeper than all sound whose serrated edges cut the heart as we break open to the place inside which is unbreakable and whole while learning to sing."
FW97
Rashani
"Is the bowl empty or is it filled with moonlight"
FW98
Rashani
"Only when my boat fully capsized in the waves could I see the pearl."
FW102
Irina Tweedie
"Only a heart that has burned empty is capable of love."
FW103
Hildegard von Bingen
"Like a flower beyond death the world-tree is blossoming. Two realms returning to oneness."
FW105
Rashani
"What once felt like grief is now the very substance of these open wings."
F109
Mirabai Starr
"Tragedy and sorrow can accomplish in a single moment what years of sitting on a meditation cushion may never yield: an unequivocal surrendering into the arms of the mystery. "
F110
Mirabai Starr
"Grief is a dynamic, ever-changing reality. There is no check-list to get through, ticking off each task as we complete it, at the end of which we are all better. It is a life-long dance, a constant opportunity to open and grow. The trick is to approach our grief with as much awareness and compassion as we can muster."
FW111
Mirabai Starr
"The world needs you. It needs your bewilderment and your yearning. It needs your broken-hearted compassion and your outrageous boldness in the face of impossible odds. "
FW116
Lalla
"No ritual, no religion, is needed. Just cry out one unobstructed cry."
F/LaMotte-2
Fred LaMotte
"Savor eternity one moment at a time."
F/Roshi Sôun-1
Roshi Sôun
"The Unborn is never apart from being born, living, and dying. It is this birth, this living, this dying, in all of its most intimate details, the Unborn expressing itself vividly, without ceasing to be unborn, and undying. "
FRu15
"Anything you lose comes around in a different form."
Rumi
FRu22
"Dance when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you're perfectly free."
-Rumi
FRu23
"This is being human is a guest house. Every morning a new a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of it's furniture, still, treat each other guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."
-Rumi
Ha3
"If you are seeking the pearl of union, do this: from tears, make yourself an ocean and then dive!"
Hafiz
FM20
"Death is not extinguishing the light. It is putting out the lamp because the dawn has arrived."
Emmanuel
F/Adya-1
Adyashanti
"God is in a mood to plunder your riches and fling you nakedly into such breathtaking poverty that all that will be left of you will be a tendency to shine."
F/Ray-7
Reggie Ray
"Maybe the final truth of our life lies precisely in the ever-deepening unknowing. Let your life be a mystery, Ever-deepening mystery"
F/Ray-8
Reggie Ray
"By being present to what's going on with us, we discover the journey that needs to be made. In other words, we find the journey that needs to be made within the exact experience we have at this moment."