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In reply to the discussion: My mother pass away early last night. I'm sorry for [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the appletree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, halfheard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always-
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are infolded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets - 1943
I don't have the right to say what this means to you and your mother, arthritisR_US, it's just something that I have found helpful in my own experience of those who have passed on.