I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.

Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.