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Nora,

I understand now

why you held your secret alone.

Death is huge and grasping,
it rocks you, catches the end

of your laugh, turns it inside out.

Death is always secret and always
alone, though

your cello wept with your raging grief
and my words tear themselves

from my throat.

But I know now, you must learn to forgive yourself
your own simple, ugly,

inexplicable human
death,

and let go of dignity
to find peace.
I know for sure that at the end, the playful stranger who appears is not death but love.
~ Kathleen Norris


We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience
– Dr. Wayne W. Dyer


Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.
– Mark Helprin, "A Soldier of the Great War"


It's okay, to think about ending
And it's okay, to not even start
Put it away, wait 'til tomorrow
Put it away, and take care of your heart
Of your heart

- Earlimart
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