Fierce Grace (now #1 in my Netflix queue), a film about Ram Dass's life and particularly the stroke, focuses on the use of the starkest tragedies, not just his, to open the heart and help us find the vital core of consciousness, the soul... In it, a woman's lover dies, and in her dream she asks him where he has gone. He says, "Listen. The love we had was wonderful, but that is small peanuts to what's ahead for you, and when that love comes, I'll be part of it.
Ram Dass (according to Rumi's translator) ecstatically tastes the truth of what the dead lover says. No sticky possessiveness, no hanging on to the past. Grief opens us to more love, and the new love builds with the former, and there's miraculous expansion. Rumi's translator says that this rare movie gives off the fragrance of enlightened love.
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