How to Find Hope, No Matter What Transpires (Spirituality & Health)

“Sometime during the 1920s, my grandmother was attending a funeral high up on the Tibetan Plateau when, she told me, the dead person attempted to reenter his old body. ‘We couldn’t see him,’ she recalled, ‘but the high lama there saw that he was trying to bring his body again to life.’

The lama urged the deceased to accept that the existence he’d known was over and to move forward, yet still he struggled.

I’ve been thinking about this story a lot lately, with today’s chaotic and frightening news cycle and the worry so many of us feel about our own and our children’s well-being, both now and in the future. Like the dead person who didn’t want to accept the truth of his situation, we turn away from events that make us anxious and fearful. It’s human nature to recoil from realities we’d rather not face. But however panicky and anguished we may feel, there’s hope to be found.”

Read the piece here.