What does it mean to examine your heart when you're already broken by grief?

Mirabai's whole life was an examined heart—and it was broken. She didn't wait until she felt better to look inward. She looked *because* of the breaking. When grief cracks you open, there's an opportunity to see yourself without the usual defenses. What are you grieving beyond the obvious loss? What does this absence reveal about what you valued, feared, needed? Sometimes grief isn't just about what's gone—it's also about who you realize you are in relation to that loss. Examining your heart during grief means asking yourself: What am I learning about love? About impermanence? About my own resilience? What am I no longer willing to tolerate? What matters now that didn't before? These questions aren't morbid—they're clarifying. They're how you honor what you've lost by letting it shape who you become. Mirabai examined her longing for Krishna with brutal honesty. She didn't pretend it didn't hurt. She sat with it, sang about it, let it teach her about devotion and surrender and the ache of loving something beyond your grasp. That's what the examined heart does during grief—it doesn't look away. It looks closer. Start with one question that resonates. Journal it. Sit with it. Let your heart speak what it needs to.