Concept

Grief

3 passages · 3 traditions

Buddhist

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Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.48, “Things That Cannot Be Had”"Mendicants, there are five things that cannot be had by any ascetic or brahmin or god or Māra or divinity or by anyone in the world. What five? That someone liable to old age should not gro…

Christian

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Psalm 34:17–19The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. Many are the aff…

Stoic

PhilosophyA philosophical argument
Enchiridion VMen are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things. Thus death is nothing terrible, else it would have appeared so to Socrates. But the terror consists in our notion…

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