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Elizabeth Gilbert on Love, Loss, and How to Move Through Grief as Grief Moves Through You

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Elizabeth Gilbert on Love, Loss, and How to Move Through Grief as Grief Moves Through You
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“Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love.”

“All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched,” Seneca told his mother in his extraordinary letter on resilience in the face of loss. One need not be a dry materialist to bo

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