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3/ ...meeting suffering with acceptance is a crucial requirement of awakening to life’s intrinsic wholeness, and also to evoking a tranquil world. “Mourning, the yes of tears, is what death looks like when we face the conditions of existence with feeling,” observes David Richo.

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Quoted by6/ In acceptance, we come to trust in a communion with life deepened at the cost of the pain that goes with such expansions of awareness. “It is up to us to trust that mourning is precisely how we resolve our losses and move through them to what comes next." - David Richo