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Words of Comfort in Bereavement ~ Sympathy Poems

You would know the secret of death.

But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?

The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day

cannot unveil the mystery of light.

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death,

open your heart wide unto the body of life.

For life and death are one,

even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires

lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;

And like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow

your heart dreams of spring.

Trust the dreams,

for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd

when he stands before the king whose hand

is to be laid upon him in honour.

Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling,

that he shall wear the mark of the king?

Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind

and to melt into the sun?

And what is it to cease breathing,

but to free the breath from its restless tides,

that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence

shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountain top,

then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your limbs,

then shall you truly dance.

- Kahlil Gibran, from The Prophet -

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Hold on to what is good even if it is a handful of earth.

Hold on to what you believe even if it is a tree which stands by itself.

Hold on to what you must do even if it is a long way from here.

Hold on to life even when it is easier letting go.

Hold on to my hand, even when I have gone away from you.

- Pueblo Blessing

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There is a sacredness in tears.

They are not the mark of weakness,

but of power.

They speak more eloquently

than 10,000 tongues.

They are the messengers

of overwhelming grief,

of deep contrition,

and of unspeakable love.

- Washington Irving

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I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, "There, she is gone."

"Gone where?"

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, "There, she is gone!" there are other eyes watching her coming, and there are other voices ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!" And that is dying.

Go Home

- Anonymous

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Sympathy Quotes

Poems and Words of Comfort

1) 'Say not in grief 'he is no more' but live in thankfulness that he was'

_Hebrew proverb

2) 'Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift, which is why it is called the present'

3) 'What the caterpillar perceives is the end, to the butterfly is just the beginning'

4) 'Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well'

_Buddist saying

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Thank`s Dylan for your site. I hope you will help your friend Anoopa..