Put into a more colloquial language and stated as a personal, paschal challenge for each of us, one might recast the diagram this way: 1. “Name your deaths” 2. “Claim your births” 3. “Grieve what you have lost and adjust to the new reality” 4. “Do not cling to the old, let it ascend and give you its blessing” 5. “Accept the spirit of the life that you are in fact living”

