The clear light of presence is an open doorway to the frequencies of a thousand precious qualities, beings of another kind whose formless nature informs this world with both its beauty and its severity.
Sorrow is among the possible qualities available within presence. This is not the sadness of personal difficulties or the melancholy that comes with disappointment in the world. This is a measureless depth of shared, impersonal suffering, a we-feeling that emerges from realizing that the separation we must experience as beings, the separation from our origin, cannot be completely healed in this life.
There are many ways of turning towards the source. Sorrow is one.