From the poet, David Whyte: "Weeping may be the closest experience human beings have to an experience of enlightenment. Because in weeping, you've given up. You've broken down. Whatever control you wanted over the world has slipped out of your hands. Whatever way you wanted to keep heartbreak at bay, whatever way you wanted to keep grief at bay, those perimeters have all been broken down by the grief, the loss, the person leaving you, by the diagnosis you've just been given in the hospital. You've actually dropped down below this perimeter, and it breaks apart through that overflow of emotions. The reason you're weeping is because you haven't built a body that can hold that revelation, but now you're just about to do it. You're breaking open this controlled edge that you've had. You've surrounded it, and it's breaking out of there. You're actually becoming larger through the weeping. Albert Camus, the French philosopher, said: "Live to the point of tears." That's not an invitation to modeling sentimentality. That's an invitation to feeling everything as much as you can feel it all the time, in beauty and in sorrow. Don't hide it from yourself. Don't just try and feel everything. It's because we're afraid of the consequences of feeling that we won't allow it. (This is a paraphrase from my interview with him)