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Nature’s cycles remind us of our own. In grief, we often go through a personal deciduousness. Just as trees drop their leaves to conserve energy, we experience periods of shedding and slowing down. It can feel like an ending, but this process allows for rest and repair until spring returns.
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What is interesting is where this leaves humans, we curious confections of matter-constrained consciousness. We can do something extraordinary: our mental parts can climb out of the window of the body, and up into the higher levels of reality. There we have access to an unconstrained realm of ideas, meanings and values (as Plato agreed). But even more than that, each of us is an undepleting fount of higher realities for as long as we live. Thus, becoming the world means living from the perspective of reality and knowingly contributing to it in all we do. In the phrase of the existentialist Martin Heidegger, we become the ‘Shepherds of Being’.
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