Grief doesn’t last forever. Grief is an emotion. It comes and goes in waves. When focused on thoughts of loss and separation, these may feel like tidal waves. Sadness does not last forever. It comes and goes, rises and falls, again like waves. Sadness is an emotion … an experience. It is temporary. Love, on the other hand, is not an emotion. It is a word you use to describe the awareness of connection. Love is lack of separation. Connection does not come and go. It is eternal, unlike the temporary experience in a body. Are you beginning to understand why love never dies? Grief will come and go. It does not last forever. Connection does not come and go. It is your foundation. Your beloved across the veil? You are always connected and always have been at the deepest level, for that which never dies is what connects you: Awareness of This … Being … beyond all stories. This. Arising and subsiding as experience. This. Wholeness. Your true nature.
You are so very loved.
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This is so true for me. My husband crossed over 2 years ago. In the weeks before that happened he told me “I love you” dozens of times a day. I had an astrologer (who said she was not a medium) tell me she kept see a spirit who wanted .me to know he has tattooed my heart with his name. She also said God has surrounded us with his light that holds us together in his love. I feel my husband near me and he is always leaving me signs. I just wish I could hear him. Or see him like mediums do.
This message Whole is just right for me at this time. Only today I was thinking and feeling I’ll never be happy again. People outside who don’t know that I’ve had a bereavement and am still grieving must think I’m a miserable so and so. I am going to try and be more devoted to meditation from now as I believe there is a great soul that we all come from and return to but knowing it is not feeling it to be real. By meditating we awaken to our eternal being and there we feel kinship with the departed.
What a beautiful insight, David, to see yourself as others may not. We don’t always know what people are going through. Don’t put on a happy face. Find the fullness and wholeness that lies beneath the roles. Sending a heartfelt hug.
Boy, This is the truth in purest form. Thank you.
Is it unhealthy to listen to songs that remind me of her even though it’s been 27 years? And is it wrong to still want her here with me instead of moving on with life even though I thought I did move on ? So lost and confused.
There is no wrong or right. What is harmonious? What holds you in suffering? Could a change in view help to bring harmony? Could acceptance of what is and a new way of looking at what is? Only you can answer these questions. The soul has the answers.
What an ahaaaa for me to read in your posting titled whole, that Love is not an emotion but connection….this clicked something in my awareness.
Thank you!