I attended a family's church concert. Afterward, I told the mother that I was struck by her daughter and son's piano duet as they happily sat on the piano bench together. My brother, who had taken a piano lesson, wouldn't have done that with me. Neither of my brothers wanted me as their sister. The mother said that we would get along in heaven. I asked, "If they don't want to see me while we're alive, why would they want to see me when we're dead?" She assured me, "In heaven, everything is different."
"she had an afternoon of clutching the sheets at the sides of her thighs with both hands and lifting her head and shoulders. The same contractions a woman does when giving birth. My mother was in labor. In her dying, she was laboring to birth herself anew"........ I recently learnt, in yoga, that the soul leaves from the crown the head, and this position assists the leaving and that it is the most complete leaving when the soul is at its most ready for a higher existence.
what a beautiful passing! Reminds me of the day my grandmother passed away, it was a serene sunlit spring morning, and I felt as if she had just become one with the garden she loved so much. Thank you for sharing.
It's wonderful to sink into this deep conversation with you. The great turning point for me came in my forties when I moved away from the idea of the divine spark within me to the more expansive idea of my being inside of God. In Jewish mysticism we say eyn od milvado....there is nothing else. Since then, I have a deep felt sense of the finite arising out of the infinite and returning to it. In my work with Hospice and in my private life, I have never known anyone who did not say "I want to go home" as their life here was ending. This includes my mother who had no professed beliefs. I did not grow up with the idea that I would see my loved ones in heaven. I find this too literal. I'd rather think with Thich Nhat Hahn that my life energy "inter-is" with trees, birds, babies and all finite expressions of Life and, that being the case, will live forever in Eternity.
I attended a family's church concert. Afterward, I told the mother that I was struck by her daughter and son's piano duet as they happily sat on the piano bench together. My brother, who had taken a piano lesson, wouldn't have done that with me. Neither of my brothers wanted me as their sister. The mother said that we would get along in heaven. I asked, "If they don't want to see me while we're alive, why would they want to see me when we're dead?" She assured me, "In heaven, everything is different."
"she had an afternoon of clutching the sheets at the sides of her thighs with both hands and lifting her head and shoulders. The same contractions a woman does when giving birth. My mother was in labor. In her dying, she was laboring to birth herself anew"........ I recently learnt, in yoga, that the soul leaves from the crown the head, and this position assists the leaving and that it is the most complete leaving when the soul is at its most ready for a higher existence.
what a beautiful passing! Reminds me of the day my grandmother passed away, it was a serene sunlit spring morning, and I felt as if she had just become one with the garden she loved so much. Thank you for sharing.
It's wonderful to sink into this deep conversation with you. The great turning point for me came in my forties when I moved away from the idea of the divine spark within me to the more expansive idea of my being inside of God. In Jewish mysticism we say eyn od milvado....there is nothing else. Since then, I have a deep felt sense of the finite arising out of the infinite and returning to it. In my work with Hospice and in my private life, I have never known anyone who did not say "I want to go home" as their life here was ending. This includes my mother who had no professed beliefs. I did not grow up with the idea that I would see my loved ones in heaven. I find this too literal. I'd rather think with Thich Nhat Hahn that my life energy "inter-is" with trees, birds, babies and all finite expressions of Life and, that being the case, will live forever in Eternity.