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Category: Neena Verma

Lament invoked love.Woe invoked wonder.Grief invoked grace.Cry invoked celebration.(Page 80)

celebration, cry, grace, grief, lament, love, woe, wonder

Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii)

grace, grief-quotes, transcend

Twilight …Not just a metaphorThe metaphor of the ‘spirit’The confluence of life and deathThe celestial dance of existential and essential(Page 75)

celestial, confluence, death, essential, life, metaphor, spirit, twilight

Death It does not happen to the dead aloneThose left behind, die tooIn parts that would never heal and come back to life(Page 14)

death, die, heal, life

I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death. (Page 94)

death, death-quotes, irony-of-life, life, life-and-death

ParentNothing … No One Prepares a parent to raise the childNothing … No One Can ever prepare a parent to bear the loss of child

child, loss-of-child, parent

Forgetting is not forgettingForgetting is ‘Letting things pass’When Existence opens up to EssenceAnd rises above and beyondThe path of Transcendence opensLove goes beyond DeathThe body disappears The person livesIn LoveAnd in this LoveRemembrance is born(Page 91)

death, death-quotes, essence, forgetting, forgetting-the-pain, letting-go, love, remembrance, transcendence

We are generally not programmed to imagine death, to handle death, to absorb grief, at least not in the immediacy of things, definitely not when the ‘thing’ has happened to another person.

The crumbling under the ‘cold corpse’The deadness of ‘mortal separation’The moaning wails of ‘mourning’The push to ‘perform rituals’The spectacle of ‘sorrow’The goriness of ‘grief’AndThe ‘mercilessness’ of the ‘merciful’Who knows … ‘what’ and ‘why’ Who would ever want to know(Page 34)

grief, mercy, mourning, sorrow

Twilight, the only time of the day when the light and dark meet and become one. The bright powerful light of the day, calmly surrenders before the engulfing duskiness of the night. And the dense whelming darkness of the night yields before the surreal dawning saffron of the morning. The only two moments of the day that absolve the difference between ‘dark and light’. (Page 71)

dark, dawn, dusk, light, light-and-darkness, surrender, twilight

Twilight …Say, who you are !!The dusk before the nightOr the dawn before the light(Page 73)

dawn, dusk, light, night, twilight, twilight-quote

One is in ‘Waiting’Even after it’s overGrief comes to stayNever up for closure…There is no escape everOne is always yearningGrief envelops thoseLeft behind in ‘waiting’…‘Staying stuck’ in painHiding deep in the heart’Let go’ ! Yes, but howTo make a new start…One has to live in theDark blind ‘Black-hole’Until Light would graceRekindling a ‘Whole'(Page 49)

blackhole, grief, light, light-and-darkness, wait, waiting, yearning