Lessons Learned from Cayce Howe: Chipping Away
Stop waiting for that epiphany. It might never come.
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Cayce Howe: Grief is Indescribable
Maybe giving friends a definition of grief is unhelpful. The last thing we want to do is add to the burden. Imagine, your best friend has a different experience than yours, and then he wonders, “Am I doing this right?” There is no “doing this right.”
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Lessons Learned from Venerable Sumitta: A Good Son Teaches his Mother
As Venerable Sumitta’s mother aged, and as he became an experienced monk, he steered her away from attachment and helped her let go of clinging and move toward a peaceful death.
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Venerable Sumitta: No Stranger to Death
Young Venerable Sumitta was no stranger to death. His father died, when he was three, one of his sisters died when he was nine. Later he would lose his brother to a brain tumor. Once he became a more experienced monk, his family and friends relied on him to help them all through their grief. They looked to Him for wisdom and guidance.
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Lessons Learned from Mary Stancavage: An Undefended Heart
We can be undefended in our grief, by normalizing the fact that death is part of everyday life. We can normalize grief by not placing expectations around what it looks like, what it feels like, and how long it lasts.
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