“In mourning, I have learned that every version of myself must grieve her loss.”
“That sense of longing now extends to feeling outside of my body. Someone recently told me that losing your mother is primal. It is the deepest loss.”
“I had not been vigilant on either occasion and I had missed something. I had missed everything.”
“She had brought me into this world and I was helping her out of it.”
What My Mother Didnt Talk About
Karolina Waclawiak
Category: TRANSCIENCE
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“…and it was said that Rossetti never got over his wife’s death, because he thought he had not been perfectly kind to her during the last years of her life, and that she might have lived longer if he had been more kindly. His friends repudiate that, and say it is not true; but if it was not true of Rossetti, it is true of many people.
The sin of neglect, the sin of inattention, the sin of absorption in self, these have wrought a great sorrow in the lives of some, and they never rise out of the dust after.”
The Gift of Suffering
F.B. Meyer -
Many people do not feel the value of something until after they have lost it!
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The son who neglects to honour his parents mistreats them and only feels their value after he has lost them, whether it is through their death or by losing their approval or blessing…
In general, a person is not aware of the value of life and the importance of eternity until after he has lost that life and eternity both together…
How nice it is if a person wakes up to himself and perceives the value of his situation before he loses it, especially something which cannot be retrieved once it has been lost!!
—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Experiences in Life -
130. Such a man knows with certainty that those who detach themselves from worldly things must endure some slight hardship in this present life, but after death they receive from God eternal blessedness and peace.
—St Anthony the Great
On the Character of Men and on the Virtuous Life
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91. When you see someone enjoying power and wealth, mind you are never deluded by some demon into thinking him happy. Quickly bring death before your eyes, and you will never have a desire for any evil or worldly object.
—St Anthony the Great
On the Character of Men and on the Virtuous Life
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82. To escape death is impossible. Knowing this, those who are truly intelligent and practiced in virtue and in spiritual thought accept death uncomplainingly, without fear or grief, recognizing that it is inevitable and delivers them from the evils of this life.
—St Anthony the Great
On the Character of Men and on the Virtuous Life
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75. We can choose to live with self-discipline, but we cannot become wealthy simply by an act of choice. Must we then condemn our soul by pursuing or even desiring a wealth which we cannot acquire by an act of choice, and which in any case is but a short-lived fantasy? How foolishly we act, not realizing that the first of all the virtues is humility, just as the first of all the passions is gluttony and desire for worldly things,
—St Anthony the Great
On the Character of Men and on the Virtuous Life
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58. Any circumstance in which a man finds himself unwillingly is a prison and a punishment for him. So be content with whatever circumstances you may now be in, lest by being ungrateful you punish yourself unwittingly. This contentment can be achieved in but one way: through detachment from worldly things.
—St Anthony the Great
On the Character of Men and on the Virtuous Life
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53. Those who know God are filled with good impulses; desiring the heavenly, they despise worldly objects. Such men neither like nor are liked by many people. Consequently numbers of idiots not only hate but also ridicule them. And they patiently endure all that comes from their poverty, knowing that what seems to many to be bad, for them is good. For he who comprehends the celestial believes in God, knowing that all are creatures of His will; whereas he who does not comprehend the celestial never believes that the world is a work of God and was made for man’s salvation.
—St Anthony the Great
On the Character of Men and on the Virtuous Life
One Hundred and Seventy Texts
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