Pete Orsi

“Having faith does not mean you do not need to mourn. Having faith does mean having the courage to allow yourself to mourn!”
― Alan D. Wolfelt, Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

“Time passing,” Jordan said, his eyes casting upward toward the stars. “It’s the big surprise in life. It might be the only one.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“With a wispier sense of self and growing courage and longing, we remain surrendered. This movement allows us to ripen every positive potentiality, our buddhaseed, our Christ consciousness, in transcendence. Here, as Martin Laird, a contemporary Christian contemplative, puts it, is “not the loss of identity but its flowering.”
― Kathleen Dowling Singh, The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older

“Surrender Laying down the self, like the hero who is too tired, too weakened, too bored, or too disenchanted with it to keep carrying it around, we cede the victory. Seeing through the self, the hero recognizes it as illusory, mere imputation, and lays it down.”
― Kathleen Dowling Singh, The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older