• "Your heart 'knows' that every living thing on this planet is connected, and when we grieve we are grieving not only for others but for our own loss.
• "Your heart knows how often you visit its sanctuary and what you have found there. You cannot fool your heart into a pretense of not needing God or love or compassion. Your heart knows better and will intensify its aching to wake you to the reality of your unexplored spirituality.
• "Your heart senses your profound need for contact, for reassurance that you are not alone, that there is meaning and purpose in your loss, and it will compel you to reach out even as you are wishing to run, to escape, to wake up and find that the sorrow has all gone away.
• "And, your heart senses the embodied resources you have not yet called upon. It breaks open to make room for the depth of your sorrow and the ever-present energy of healing to enter your heart at this time.
• "A heart broken open is not a shattered heart. It is a heart unafraid to shed tears, unafraid to be vulnerable, unafraid to weep, unafraid to name its own demons and to refuse to project them on others.
• "A heart broken open is a heart full of receptivity to the healing love of strangers, of animals, of prayer, of compassion, and of memory.
• "A heart broken open offers you a sanctuary in which you can find God so that you are never alone.
• "A heart broken open links you forever to the family of humanity.
• "A heart broken open is an invitation to become real — to stand before the altar of your soul and pledge that you will no longer waste this precious life on unconsciousness."
