Bly describes a process of grieving encapsulated in poignant dreams.
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.
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Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moment,” A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss.