Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
Stephen Levine
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say And why are you waiting
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Love is not what we become but who we already are
love
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
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What would you say? And why are you waiting?
waiting
What's in it for them? Who knows? Maybe they just feel it's a chance to weaken the ACT Party and Rodney who would be a nuisance, he's a formidable person.. Frankly from the point of view of self interest it's almost like nuisance litigation.
chance person feel party act interest view
I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace.... Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table; indeed they may not even believe supper is being served. They are not storing up 'merit.'; They just smile because their heart is ripe. They are kind for no particular reason; they just love.
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How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
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I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)
life death living
Death is perfectly safe. (55)
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Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34)
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forgiveness memory healing grief tension healing-the-past
Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)
forgiveness self-love healing
There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)
forgiveness suffering openness god
We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)
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[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)
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