Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Grief and loss on this place called Earth

I heard something really beautiful on a podcast today that I need to share with you.
It helped me.
"Reality is another word for truth, God's business. And on this place called Earth things happen, and they are always axioms of truth. That the Earth does not have an earthquake because it is trying to punish someone, that someone wasn't moral, that it was their number that was up. This Earth functions the way that this Earth does because that's what happens with planets. And transposing a story about what's happened on this place called Earth is irrational. Because on this place that we live in, where we don't have a choice, that reality is there are fires, and there are floods, and there are car accidents, and there are babies that die, and people get cancer. So I think that what complicates grief isn't what happens to an individual, it's what they are saying about that. It's their own account. It's their disposition towards it. So in other words taking the loss and personalizing the reasons for the loss. When loss happens that is just how it is here. And it doesn't ask for our permission, it doesn't ask for our vote. It doesn't ask for our opinion. It just happens. And asking the question why did this happen is usually a very simple response. And the response is let's go back to how this "game" is played. Out here in this world we are forms. We are physical forms. And there are many facets to us, but these physical forms live, and then in one moment they suffer and injury. And their bodies cannot compensate for the injury, then the form shuts down, and then it changes form. And that is what everyone's story is going to be when they die. Whether it's dying of cancer, or dying precipitously in a car accident, or whether you just die of old age. But at one moment all of us are going to encounter that we lived, and then our form suffered an injury, the injury was too great for the form to compensate, and then the form changes form, and the soul goes home. Wherever home is for that individual."

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