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«Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
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And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.» 🪷

«And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching.
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Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. »

Drive your plow over the bones of the dead.

«Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
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To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.»

« Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret? »

«To love without wanting to devour must surely be anorexic.»