WISDOM: Crying - various authors

“It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.”

 
~Alexander Lowen
(The Voice of the Body)

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“Crying is like a thunder shower for the soul. The air feels so wonderful after the rain. Don’t think too much. Breathe. Don’t be harsh or demanding on yourself. Just experience your feelings and know that your tears are announcing change in your life. Change is coming; like a summer rain — to wash away your pain. Have faith that things are getting better.”

 
~Bryant McGill
(Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life)

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”

~William Shakespeare (King Henry VI, Part 3)


Before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

~Indian Proverb

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Men don't cry.
We'll handle any pain or die
We're MEN, damn it!
We're always in control. 
THAT'S BULLSHIT!
Don't give me that macho shaming crap!
  
Only the dead shed no tears
    
Men do cry, should cry 
Far more often than we do cry
For we men are human, too

Expel those emotional toxins
Improve overall health
Cry, Sob, Weep, and Wail
Crying does a body good

Like rain upon parched soil
Tears nourish the dry, thirsty soul 
Revitalizing Life anew
Fertile, Fresh and Free

So, Men, when you feel it
Let those tears fly
'Cause nothing cleanses the soul 
Like having a good cry

~AOM