{"author":"Neena Verma","author_id":"Neena+Verma","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death. (Page 94).","author":"Neena Verma","tags":["death","death","irony-of-life","life","life-and-death"],"id":54701,"author_id":"Neena+Verma"},{"text":"Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii).","author":"Neena Verma","tags":["grace","grief","transcend"],"id":78564,"author_id":"Neena+Verma"},{"text":"Twilight, the only time of the day when the light and dark meet and become one. The bright powerful light of the day, calmly surrenders before the engulfing duskiness of the night. And the dense whelming darkness of the night yields before the surreal dawning saffron of the morning. The only two moments of the day that absolve the difference between ‘dark and light’. (Page 71).","author":"Neena Verma","tags":["dark","dawn","dusk","light","light-and-darkness","surrender","twilight"],"id":86750,"author_id":"Neena+Verma"},{"text":"Appreciate, Let purpose inspire action, Learn with humility, Go beyond .. All in Here \u0026 Now.","author":"Neena Verma","tags":["appreciate","here-now","inspire","learn","purpose"],"id":126325,"author_id":"Neena+Verma"},{"text":"The crumbling under the ‘cold corpse’The deadness of ‘mortal separation’The moaning wails of ‘mourning’The push to ‘perform rituals’The spectacle of ‘sorrow’The goriness of ‘grief’AndThe ‘mercilessness’ of the ‘merciful’Who knows … ‘what’ and ‘why’ Who would ever want to know(Page 34).","author":"Neena Verma","tags":["grief","mercy","mourning","sorrow"],"id":156558,"author_id":"Neena+Verma"},{"text":"One is in 'Waiting'Even after it's overGrief comes to stayNever up for closure...There is no escape everOne is always yearningGrief envelops thoseLeft behind in 'waiting'...‘Staying stuck’ in painHiding deep in the heart'Let go' ! Yes, but howTo make a new start...One has to live in theDark blind ‘Black-hole’Until Light would graceRekindling a 'Whole'(Page 49).","author":"Neena Verma","tags":["blackhole","grief","light","light-and-darkness","wait","waiting","yearning"],"id":174231,"author_id":"Neena+Verma"},{"text":"GriefYou plunge one in many emotionsBetrayal, Despair, Depression, Fear, AngerGriefYou are more difficult to face than DeathGriefPlease let my faith stay stronger than youGriefI so wish you eventually lose out to love(Page 58).","author":"Neena Verma","tags":["anger","death","depression","despair","faith","fear","grief","love"],"id":193130,"author_id":"Neena+Verma"},{"text":"Forgetting is not forgettingForgetting is ‘Letting things pass’When Existence opens up to EssenceAnd rises above and beyondThe path of Transcendence opensLove goes beyond DeathThe body disappears The person livesIn LoveAnd in this LoveRemembrance is born(Page 91).","author":"Neena Verma","tags":["death","death","essence","forgetting","forgetting-the-pain","letting-go","love","remembrance","transcendence"],"id":197938,"author_id":"Neena+Verma"},{"text":"We are generally not programmed to imagine death, to handle death, to absorb grief, at least not in the immediacy of things, definitely not when the ‘thing’ has happened to another person.","author":"Neena Verma","tags":["death","grief"],"id":198618,"author_id":"Neena+Verma"},{"text":"Twilight ...Say, who you are !!The dusk before the nightOr the dawn before the light(Page 73).","author":"Neena Verma","tags":["dawn","dusk","light","night","twilight","twilight"],"id":200642,"author_id":"Neena+Verma"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}