If there happens to be a multitude of griefs upon you, individual and collective, or fast and slow, or small and large, add equal parts of these considerations: – that the broken heart can cover more territory. – that perhaps love can only be as large as grief demands. – that grief is the growing up of the heart that bursts boundaries like an old skin or a finished life. – that grief is gratitude. – that water seeks scale, that even your tears seek the recognition of community. – that the heart is a front line and the fight is to feel in a world of distraction. – that death might be the only freedom. – that your grief is a worthwhile use of your time. – that your body will feel only as much as it is able to. – that the ones you grieve may be grieving you. – that the sacred comes from the limitations. – that you are excellent at loving.
Adrienne Maree Brown (excerpt from “Spell for Grief or Letting Go”)
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