The most powerful spiritual initiations begin with a profound loss.

It's when you lose someone you love, let it break your heart entirely, and allow that broken heart to remain open long enough that suddenly you feel EVERYTHING; all the sadness you suppressed, all the joy you were too numb to appreciate, all the tears that became too frozen to cry.

The intensity of a profound loss can crack open the emotional body so violently that the floodgates of decades of emotional suppression release all at once.

And in the aftermath of the storm, you will feel suddenly present to the devastating beauty of life’s impermanence.

There is no greater awakening to the mystery of life than coming face to face with the reality of loss and death.