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To
grieve means to bear a heavy burden.
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The Shiva Foundation was formed to open the dialogue around
issues of grief and loss in such a way that honors loss in the
cycle of life. The Hindu god Shiva dances the cosmic dance of
creation and destruction teaching us that each act of destruction
calls for an act of creation. We take that into our grief to teach
us that we heal our loss through acts of creation.
Grieving takes time. We owe it to ourselves and to each
other to feel the pain, to feel the fear, to feel the anxiety and,
ultimately, to live the questions until the answers begin to reveal
themselves to us. The great German poet Rainer Marie Rilke says it
for us: Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try
to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers which
cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And
the point is to live everything. (So) live the questions now....
E-mail:
shiva@goodgrief.org
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