We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. Proust
In my early days of grief, as I searched through books looking for answers into what had torn my life apart, I noticed that Rainer Maria Rilke and Washington Irving had different opinions.
Rilke, in Letters to a Young Poet, writes that we carry sadness around for too long instead of letting it pass. He says that sadness brings something new into our lives so we should let go of the sadness and pay attention to what is in the shadows waiting to be explored: “A stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.”
