Neena Verma Quotes

Death It does not happen to the dead aloneThose left behind, die tooIn parts that would never heal and come back to life(Page 14)

I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death. (Page 94)

ParentNothing … No One Prepares a parent to raise the childNothing … No One Can ever prepare a parent to bear the loss of child

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)

The morning’s splendour is conceived in the dark womb of night. A truth … we all know and believe. Yet a truth, that is most difficult to live and endure when one is in that dark womb. Alive and breathing … but inert, vulnerable, and ‘in waiting’. Witnessing but not conscious, wakeful but not awake. (Page 2)

The Source …Who are YouWhere lay your pathWhy be on your journey...The Source …Your marvel amazesYour mystique invokesYour magnificence entrances(Page 88)

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)

Lament invoked love.Woe invoked wonder.Grief invoked grace.Cry invoked celebration.(Page 80)