Neena Verma Quotes

#1. Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii)

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#2. Nature does not abandon us. Rather, it helps us in accepting our loss, grief and pain. It stays with us, even cries with us. It gifts us openings, may be more than once, to heal, transcend and re-emerge. (Page xii)

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#3. Death
It does not happen to the dead alone
Those left behind, die too
In parts that would never heal and come back to life
(Page 14)

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#4. I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death.
(Page 94)

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#5. We are generally not programmed to imagine death, to handle death, to absorb grief, at least not in the immediacy of things, definitely not when the 'thing' has happened to another person.

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#6. Lament invoked love.
Woe invoked wonder.
Grief invoked grace.
Cry invoked celebration.
(Page 80)

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#7. Cold, still and merciless
Death comes visiting
With absolute finality
(Page 24)

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#8. The dawn broke, but the Sun did not rise that morning. It was a morning of 'mourning'. (Page 24)

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#9. Letting myself fall wasn't easy. It wasn't hard either. It was a calling that I had to honour. I did honour. I took a plunge into my dark abyss. I faced my grief, my fear, my sadness, my loneliness, my anguish, myself. (Page 78)

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#10. There are words like 'orphan', 'widow' and 'widower' in all languages. But there is no word in any language to describe a parent who loses a child. How does one describe the pain of 'ultimate bereavement'! (Page 50)

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#11. Grief
You plunge one in many emotions
Betrayal, Despair, Depression, Fear, Anger
Grief
You are more difficult to face than Death
Grief
Please let my faith stay stronger than you
Grief
I so wish you eventually lose out to love
(Page 58)

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#12. Twilight ...
Say, who you are !!
The dusk before the night
Or the dawn before the light
(Page 73)

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#13. Appreciate, Let purpose inspire action, Learn with humility, Go beyond .. all in Here & Now.

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