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Grief & the Mustard Seed

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Dea Rivera
Mindfulness Teacher
This ancient tale illustrates how how similar we experience sorrow and loss with the understanding that life and death are a part of being human.
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11 reflections
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Matthew
Feeling blessed this Easter day
I'm fairly certain that I actually died a couple of times during my massive stroke event. This story reminds me of how my wife would have been devastated had I actually passed permanently. I'm SO grateful to still be here with her and our children! I do mourn the lifestyle and living I lost though...and I ache to regain some measure of the living I lost!
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Kloey
Grief
I learned that even though everyone has their own ways of grieving and problems such as death we can all relate and help others out as they go through that hard time. Also that even though the wound in your heart of the person dying is always there it will get less tender as time goes on.
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Isabel
I felt I could relate to the story because loss can be SO hard
I learned that it takes time to grieve and recover . That life is hard and it knocks you down and makes you sad. But you have to think of all the good memories with your deceased and how they wouldn’t want you to dwell your whole life and miss them when you should live you life too. Depression will just make things harder on your life.
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Sameh
Depressed
I felt that there’s a threat I felt that I cannot push further
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Adrienne
Never alone
We all, at some point in our lives feel alone. But we need not fear. Because there will always be someone near us no matter what.
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izzy
I felt like my life isn’t worse as the mother’s life she lost her loved one.
I learned that my life isn’t that bad and isn’t perfect either.
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Destiny
Grief
I felt like this story talked about way too much grieved game and death. Made felt a little depresse
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Justine
Grief understood
Beautiful story and lovely narration thank you. Grief is different for everyone but we all share a common understanding of the harshness of being left behind to deal with the emotions it evokes.
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Walter J
Grieving...
While I have always felt a death of a loved one such a touchy, awkward subject to confront, I learned it is so Universal that I should be able to talk about it more easily because everyone can relate to it.
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Maxine
I felt sad and depressed after hearing this story. It is too morbid before bed time
I should not listen to sad stories before bed.It made me sad. I still could not sleep. This story left me anxious and sad.
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Sienna
Not for me
This would be a good story for someone who was grieving, but not a good bedtime for someone who just can’t sleeping.