Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it.
Interpretation
Grief is an emotional process that requires acknowledgment and time to heal.
This quote by Louise Hay emphasizes the importance of recognizing and accepting grief as a natural part of life. It suggests that rather than avoiding or suppressing our feelings of loss, we should allow ourselves to fully experience and process our grief, spending time with our emotions to ultimately find healing and understanding.
In practice
During a memorial service, you might share this quote to emphasize the importance of acknowledging grief.
Be grateful for what you do have, and you will find it increases. I like to bless with love all that is in my life right now-my home, the heat, water, light, telephone, furniture, plumbing, appliances, clothing, transportation, jobs-the money I do have, friends, my ability to see and feel and taste and touch and walk and to enjoy this incredible planet.
Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.
Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.
Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?
Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them.
You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die β with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch.
. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
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