“Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)”
― A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
― A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
“[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)”
― A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
― A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
“If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)”
― A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
― A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
“I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)”
― A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
― A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
“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)”
― A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
― A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
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