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My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
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Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.
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Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.
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The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.
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Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.
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When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.
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The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.
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Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,
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I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass
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I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.
