“Where there is sorrow,” wrote Oscar Wilde, “there is holy ground.” Francis Weller's day-long seminar was an invitation to enter the }acred ground of grief and encounter the multiple ways it arrives in our lives.

Sorrow shakes us and breaks us open to depths of soul we could not imagine. In a very real way, grief ripens us, pulls up from the depths of our souls what is most authentic in us. In truth, without some familiarity with sorrow, we do not mature as human beings. It is the broken heart, the heart that knows sorrow, that is capable of genuine love.

Grief has always been communal in our long story as a species. Too often in modern times, however, our grief is carried privately, forcing sorrow underground. It is our unexpressed sorrows, the congested stories of loss, that, when left unattended, block our access to soul.

We then are pulled by the gravity of loss below the surface of life and into the terrain of death. We must restore the practices and customs of grief in our lives. Each of us must undertake an apprenticeship with sorrow and learn the skill of grieving for our own sake and for the welfare of all beings.

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