Last night I was wandering
around the house, which is something I do now and then to get my bearings, when a line from Rumi’s “Zero
Circle” came to mind: “Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us
up.” I don’t think Rumi was specifically addressing grief, but his words have useful insights.
The poem starts: “Be
helpless, dumbfounded, / Unable to say yes or no.”
This pretty much sums up our
state of mind when grief begins. We no longer know what we think or feel, and
we can’t make even simple decisions.
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