"Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of yoga."
Swami Kripalvanandji
"And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again…Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore."
Anne Lamott
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
John Keats
