Grief

Grief means that for a time we've considered ourselves as half of a whole, and now our two halves are separated. It's the psychological state that comes when something upon which we've learned as our security begins to disintegrate. It's like a grave that we put ourselves in, at times feeling like an insurmountable gravity.

If we consider another being or thing essential to our continued existence, and that being or thing collapses, that's when we feel grief.

Our attachment to what we think we've lost is something that goes on in the head. We may think we've lost them, and we no longer have the joy of their hugs, but in our hearts they are permanently, indelibly enshrined.

I've lost good friends to cancer, and sometimes slip into the thought, "If I only knew then what I know now", but realise that it's a fruitless idea. Because I didn't, and to even consider it, to align myself with it, merely introduces more mental suffering.

We are each unique human beings with so much to offer the world. The negative loss that we feel can be turned into a positive, by digging our way out of grief's gravity and sharing it positively with other beings who may be going through something similar.

Time itself is a strange creation. In the old testament it's described as a lion that eats its children. All is like leaves on a stream passing through, things pass, some far and away more enjoyable than others, depending on how much time and energy we've devoted to them. But all things that come to be will once again cease to be.

Just about the only thing that we can rely upon is the Law of Change. I believe that when we begin to positively accept that this is true, we also will change with it ... and live forever in that Law.

Love is the highest fequency in the unverse. It's why is can penetrate through where nothing else can. Love, John.

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