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Miriam Greenspan

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Our faith is not faith until it’s tested.
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In the Jewish tradition, doubt and despair are not sacrilegious. They are not signs of weak faith or spiritual sin. On the contrary, struggling with God, arguing with God, fighting with God, even accusing God of crimes against humanityβ€”these are all very much a part of the Jewish, particularly the Hasidic, soul.
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Despair finds fertile ground in an indigestible truth. Often, it will not let up until we face these darker truths about ourselves and our world.
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Painful emotions challenge us to know the sacred in the broken
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We search in the light for what we would find in the dark.
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[To] master our sorrows, we must know how to be fully immersed in emotion, yet not ruled by it
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When a flower opens, it opens equally to sun and rain.
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Patience is the ability to hang in there with feelings that appear to be going nowhere.
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A grief deferred is a grief prolonged. There are no short-cuts in the alchemy of the dark emotions.
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On Vulnerability
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Healing through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair
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Tears are the medium of the ego’s surrender to death.
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