This morning I was listening to a talk about grief when I heard these words of Stephen Levine and thought of this painting I did in the mid-1980s:
We are learning to live with the consequences of love. So we must bear loss as deeply as we cared. Throughout spiritual literature we are told that attachment creates pain, and here we are, trying to learn how to love more fully in the shadow of that very painful truth! But the irony is that without some level of attachment, there could be no love. As the Dalai Lama has said, 'No attachment, no compassion."
It is the balancing act of a lifetime.
