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Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't - at least not in the moment.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.