I’ve not read her work but understand much of it has its context with North American Indian culture and is highly lauded.

I must try to find some of her poetry.

Sure does

Yep, hits a little too close to home, especially the thought of solitude breaking me. I fear it already has in a lot of ways, but none that can’t be mostly healed one day. It’s certainly not for fear or unwillingness to love, feel, or risk my heart. If anything it’s that I’m too willing. Or it’s just the way life’s been so far, with too few chances to do so. It’ll turn around, or it won’t, and I’ll sit under the apple tree, until I don’t. I feel I’ve already learned this lesson a thousand times over, and there’s not much I can do about indulging it any further than I have. So I guess I’m already at the stage of acceptance of the last sentence mostly, on my better days. It’s decently well-put advice many ought to heed though.

I tend not to like anything that says "have to" or "you are here to" as it seems like an instruction, and I like to decide for myself how I will live my life, and always have hope.

Chances are we all WILL love, we WILL experience loss, pain, we WILL yearn to feel emotions, we WILL be overwhelmed at times, but yes, it's good to take time away from what we feel we are missing and enjoy the beauty and pleasures around us, no matter how small, and appreciate what we have, and accept that we don't always have that perfect balance we desire all the time.

This quote seems to indicate the feeling that the tide has gone out, and there is no more hope that the tide will come back in and bring us more things to love, experience and enjoy.

There is no "one size fits all" for humanity.

Doesn't resonate with me at all.

Nah. Sounds like you are a victim. None of us are. Life is pain. Pain is learning and growth.

I prefer the Phoenix story. This one sounds too much like giving up. Death will break me/ or end me.

No, I don't think "you are here" for any specific reason at all. Some people have wonderful lives, some terrible lives, some somewhere in the spectrum between the two. It's just the luck of the draw.
I DO think believing that can make life more bearable for those who suffer. I suffer sometimes. Right now things are pretty good, and I hope it stays that way!
But when I have been in the midst of torturous pain, it helped to know I wasn't alone.
I guess that's why I liked Dylan so much: he didn't sugar-coat life and pretend everything was great and the only possible problem was whether or not some girl loved him or not. In fact, he was sick of life and made sure everybody knew it!
Anyway, I try to remember the bad times, know they may come again, and try to help out if possible.
And I know EVERYBODY has the final "bad time" when the time comes, so I try to enjoy it when and if I can, and hope for the best.

Sea Grapes....they taste terrible.

Life will knock you around, but has no conscientious intention of breaking you. Our reason for being is to reproduce, I feel, and felt that a noble calling. I find the quote above an esoteric description of acceptance, if not understanding our place within life’s cycle.

Life is a cycle, and where you are within that cycle evolves. You can’t reverse it, and you’ve never been where you currently are.. We should make the effort to do positive acts that move humanity in a healthy direction. With life experience, let’s share our knowledge, set a healthy example ..and focus further afield than our own backyard.

What are those berries? ...and can you hear them drop

Wow