Category

Voices for grief

These voices are best suited to grief — but every voice in FindOkay is still visible below.

Rumi

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Rumi.

Rumi

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • loneliness
  • relationships
  • faith
  • purpose

Generated from

  • Sufism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Acceptance
Homer

Reflection built from the epics associated with Homer — the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Homer

"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • loneliness
  • purpose
  • faith

Generated from

  • Poetic
  • Greek epic
  • Mythic
Boethius

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Boethius.

Boethius

"Nothing is miserable unless you think it so."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Christian contemplative
  • Neoplatonism
Matsuo Bashō

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Matsuo Bashō.

Matsuo Bashō

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • stress
  • purpose

Generated from

  • Zen
  • Poetic
Emily Dickinson

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Emily Dickinson.

Emily Dickinson

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

Specializes in

  • loneliness
  • grief
  • anxiety
  • purpose

Generated from

  • Poetic
Thomas Aquinas

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Thomas Aquinas.

Thomas Aquinas

"To love God is to love what is good, and nothing is good except God."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • faith
  • anxiety
  • grief
  • leadership

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Logotherapy
  • Existential meaning
Julian of Norwich

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Julian of Norwich.

Julian of Norwich

"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • faith
  • loneliness
  • aging parents

Generated from

  • Contemplative Christianity
Farid ud-Din Attar

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Farid ud-Din Attar.

Farid ud-Din Attar

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion; bewilderment is intuition."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • grief
  • loneliness
  • faith
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Sufism
  • Poetry as reflection
  • Contemplative practice
Augustine of Hippo

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Augustine of Hippo.

Augustine of Hippo

"Our heart is restless until it rests in you."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • faith
  • anxiety
  • grief
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Existential meaning
Meister Eckhart

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Meister Eckhart.

Meister Eckhart

"The ground of the soul and the ground of God are one and the same."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • faith
  • grief

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Self-inquiry
Francis of Assisi

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Francis of Assisi.

Francis of Assisi

"For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."

Specializes in

  • relationships
  • purpose
  • faith
  • anxiety
  • grief
  • loneliness

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Compassion practice
  • Nature connection
John of the Cross

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with John of the Cross.

John of the Cross

"In the dark night, the soul receives pure contemplation and purification, removing all that is not God."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • faith
  • stress

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Grief work
Kateri Tekakwitha

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Kateri Tekakwitha.

Kateri Tekakwitha

"I am not my own; I have given myself to Jesus. He must be my only love."

Specializes in

  • faith
  • anxiety
  • grief
  • self confidence
  • loneliness

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Indigenous wisdom
  • Compassion practice
Abraham Lincoln

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in."

Specializes in

  • leadership
  • grief
  • purpose
  • stress
  • anxiety
  • relationships

Generated from

  • Indigenous wisdom
  • Existential meaning
  • Grief work
Isaac Luria

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Isaac Luria.

Isaac Luria

"From the very beginning, each soul is composed of 613 components, corresponding to the 613 commandments of the Torah."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • grief
  • faith
  • self confidence
  • burnout
  • loneliness

Generated from

  • Kabbalah
  • Hasidic Judaism
  • Christian mysticism
Milarepa

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Milarepa.

Milarepa

"My religion is to live and die without regret."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • grief
  • purpose
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Buddhism
  • Tibetan Buddhism
  • Contemplative practice
Nachman of Breslov

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Nachman of Breslov.

Nachman of Breslov

"The whole world is a very narrow bridge; the important thing is not to be afraid at all."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • grief
  • purpose
  • faith
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Hasidic Judaism
  • Kabbalah
  • Existential meaning
Nagarjuna

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Nagarjuna.

Nagarjuna

"Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence
  • burnout
  • grief

Generated from

  • Buddhism
  • Zen
  • Mindfulness
John Henry Newman

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with John Henry Newman.

John Henry Newman

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • faith
  • self confidence
  • grief
  • anxiety

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Existential meaning
Seneca

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Seneca.

Seneca

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Stoicism
  • Cognitive reframing
  • Existential meaning
Adi Shankara

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Adi Shankara.

Adi Shankara

"Brahman is without beginning, without end, pure, beyond the beyond, there is no diversity in it."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • grief
  • self confidence
  • faith

Generated from

  • Advaita Vedanta
  • Yoga philosophy
  • Self-inquiry
Mary Shelley

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Mary Shelley.

Mary Shelley

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • grief
  • anxiety
  • self confidence
  • relationships

Generated from

  • Existential meaning
  • Grief work
  • Self-inquiry
Vincent van Gogh

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Vincent van Gogh.

Vincent van Gogh

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • grief
  • loneliness
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Poetry as reflection
  • Existential meaning
  • Nature connection
Kamo no Chōmei

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Kamo no Chōmei.

Kamo no Chōmei

"The flowing river never stops, and yet the water never stays the same."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • stress
  • purpose
  • retirement

Generated from

  • Buddhism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Nature connection