"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."   
                         ~ Rumi

Recommended Reading

Below are a list of books that you may find helpful:

Rodney Smith - Lessons from the Dying

Maggie Callanan - Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life

Maggie Callanan & Patricia Kelley - Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

Kathleen Dowling Singh - The Grace in Dying: How We Are Transformed Spiritually As We Die

Alan D. Wolfelt - Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart

Brene Brown - Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead

Brene Brown - The Gifts of Imperfection

Martha Beck - Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

William Bridges -Transitions

Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now

Joseph Goldstein & Jack Kornfield - Seeking the Heart of Wisdom

Byron Katie - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor - Leaving Church

Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor - An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

Michael Yaconelli - Messy Spirituality

C.S. Lewis - A Grief Observed

Sherwin B. Nuland - How We Die

Joseph Sharp - Living Our Dying: A Way to the Sacred in Everyday Life

Mark Epstein M.D. - Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness

May Sarton - Collected Poems