What we can do to avoid suffering more is not to love less, but to learn, when the moment of separation or loss arrives, not to stay stuck on what no longer exists. To enjoy the moment, as long as it lasts, and to try to make it as good as possible. To live, risking every minute of our lives. Finally, not to live tomorrow with the thought of today, which was so beautiful, because tomorrow we will have the obligation to do whatever tomorrow brings. And we will try to make that equally beautiful.

Autonomy, love, pain, happiness, and spirituality are the five paths charted by Bukai on the map leading to the completion of a person, to the realization of the self. Five journeys that each person must undertake through personal experiences and in their own way. The path of tears is, according to Jorge Bucay, the hardest of these paths. It is the pathway of pain, mourning, and loss, yet even so, it is an absolutely necessary road. Because we cannot move on if we do not leave behind what is no longer here with us.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]