About the experience of ending: John O'Donohue

Experience has its own secret structuring. Endings are natural. Often what alarm us as ending can in fact be the opening of a new journey - a new beginning that we could never be anticipated; one that engages forgotten parts of the heart. Due to the current overlay of therapy terminology in our language,  everyone now seems to wish for "closure." This word is unfortunate,  it is not faithful to the open-ended rhythm of experience. Creatures made of clay with porous skin and porous minds are quite incapable of the hermetic sealing that the strategy of "closure" seems to imply. The word completion is a truer word. ... When the person manage to trust experience and be open to it,  the experience finds its own way to realization. Though such an ending may be akward and painful, there is a sense of wholesomeness and authenticity about it.  Then the heart will gradually find that this stage has run its course and the ending is substantial and true. Eventually the person emerges with a deeper sense of freedom, certainty and integration.

John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us, "Beyond Endings" p. 157
Art by Manon Gauthier, "Good Memory"