Excessive sorrow for our loved ones who have left this world is not a Christian act, but an act of godlessness. We prepare ourselves in this life for eternal life. We must be thankful for everything and thank God for taking the souls of our departed loved ones to Himself.
—Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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You have a lovely text threads with friends from your childhood or your 20s that pop off every few days.
But let’s be real: it’s just not enough. When you let yourself think about it, you feel incredibly isolated.
The Dark Heart of Individualism
Anne Helen Petersen -
The hardest thing about life, it seems, is the impossibility of holding on to it
—Grazie Sophia Christie -
For several days Michel kept the photograph beside him on his bedside table. The mysteries of time were banal, he told himself, this was the way of the world: youthful optimism fades, and happiness and confidence evaporate. He lay on his Bultex mattress, struggling to come to terms with the transience of life.
The Elementary Particles
Michel Houellebecq -
“Deep inside, each man feels—and believes—himself to be immortal, even if he knows he will perish the next moment. We can understand everything, admit everything, realize everything, except our death, even when we “ponder it unremittingly and even when we are resigned to it.”
—E. M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born
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In life we pass through stages. The heart, thoughts, feelings and spirit all pass through them. Each stage has its impact and effect. It has a duration of time beyond which it does not go.
Happy is the one who looks continually with hope for the next stage.
Happy is the one whom difficulties do not send to the other extreme. For a difficulty is only a stage in life and the solution of that difficulty is yet another stage.
Live with faith that there will be a solution and rejoice as you look forward to what cannot be seen.
The world itself is only a stage in life that will arrive at another stage, that of eternity.
—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Experiences in Life
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