Cloudscape

When you are in sadness, try to let go of attachment as much as possible: let go of greed, of anger, of fear. Let go of all things you tell yourself that must or must not be. Letting go of attachment is easier when sad, and in this way, sadness can come to its use. It can thus cleanse your being from impurities and, like winter, creates an emptiness from which new life can grow in spring. The faster you are able to let go, the less painful your sadness will feel, and the quicker it can also pass. Thus, do not resist sadness, but try to make use of it until it is gone. The use of sadness is to make one let go how things go, not as a punishment when things do not go your way. In your sadness, let go off all control and let everything be. Thus, it will come to its use.

Sometimes the best thing you can do when you are in sadness is to make use of your sadness' purification abilities, and the best way to do this is to turn inwards. Meditation, or, if you are religious, prayer, can be a good way to do this. In your sadness, you are more able to let go of control, thereby creating an emptiness within yourself. Learn to appreciate the silence this brings, and in that silence try to find grace.

Above all, when you are sad, think about what you want to do with your life. Sadness is an emptiness which creates a panorama within your mind. Hear the silence. See the darkness. Feel the cold. In this emptiness, find purity. Once you have done this, your sadness has served its purpose, and the light may come back once again.

It is in your emptiness that you can most purify your life. If emptiness comes over you, then, use it to do so.

When losing something, people often try to represent what they lost as being of less worth than it used to be to them. This may lessen their sorrow for what they lost, but this is no good way of saying goodbye. Instead, remember of what worth it was to you, but also see the worth of its loss, and what that loss may have brought you instead.  You will then find that it may have brought you more silence where before there had been disorder.

When in times of hardship you are numbed with pain and feel that you have lost all feelings, remember that they are still nonetheless still htere, even if they are hidden in your unconscious mind. All you need to do is to find them again. Acknowledge that they are still there, even if you cannot feel them, and they will bit by bit return. Just saying to yourself how you think you would feel in a moment as is present, and describing how the feeling would be like, can help a great deal to become aware of your emotions again. Just imagine how an emotion would feel like, imagine it as vividly as possible, and it will become real.