A dear friend recommended me this book, and my local Library had it! It has been bittersweet to read some of its passages, which sounds appropriate, right?
Here are a couple quotes, lines that were specially meaningful to me.
"Have you realized that you're part of a long and storied tradition that can help you transform your pain into beauty, your longing into belonging?" (p. 237)
"Or maybe you mourn your breakups, or your dead, which tells you that separation is the most fundamental of heartaches, but also that attachment is our deepest desire, and that you might transcend your grief when you perceive how connected you are with all the other humans who struggle to transcend theirs, and who emerge in fits and starts, bit by rocky bit, just like you." (p.238)
Check the book Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
by Susan Cain
Her website: https://susancain.net/
Poems that these quotes made me think of:
Read the poem "For Belonging", by John O'Donohue
Read the poem "Unbroken", by Rashani Rea
Read "About Standing (in Kinship)", by Kimberly Blaeser
