-Emotional acceptance takes time and work and pain and hurt.
-The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people just don't happen.
-What a blessing to take the time to integrate loss into our lives so that when a love is lost, our capacity to love is not lost also. From our grief can come growth.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes IV
-The conquest of death is believed to be along and arduous task, involving the cultivation of a disciplined mind and body throughout many terms of existence.
-To find release to must begin regard life and death as identical.
-As a man desires, he wills. As he wills, he acts. As he acts, so does he become.
-It is no really the dying that's so hard; dying takes no skill and no understanding. It can be done by anyone. What is hard is living, living until you die.
-Learning to reinvest yourself in living when you have lost someone you love is very difficult, but only through doing so can you give some meaning to that person's death.
-Dying patients should be allowed as much control as possible over their lives and routines, and life should, as far as possible, be consistent with the life they led before their illness.
-A funeral should be a time to say your last goodbyes, to begin to work through your grief, to make death through actively participating in the preparation and final service, to begin living again and growing through your experience.
-To find release to must begin regard life and death as identical.
-As a man desires, he wills. As he wills, he acts. As he acts, so does he become.
-It is no really the dying that's so hard; dying takes no skill and no understanding. It can be done by anyone. What is hard is living, living until you die.
-Learning to reinvest yourself in living when you have lost someone you love is very difficult, but only through doing so can you give some meaning to that person's death.
-Dying patients should be allowed as much control as possible over their lives and routines, and life should, as far as possible, be consistent with the life they led before their illness.
-A funeral should be a time to say your last goodbyes, to begin to work through your grief, to make death through actively participating in the preparation and final service, to begin living again and growing through your experience.
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes III
-It is not a particular type of human action per se that determines the outcome of a course of action, whether for good or ill. Rather, it is the frame of mind and heart which is crucial.
-Death is the fate to which all living creatures come at the appointed time, and the unavoidable gate to another realm or state of being through which all creatures must pass.
-That person who faces death calmly, courageously, and confidently, desiring neither to flee it nor to rush into its grasp, will come to recognize death not as an enemy or a robber, but as an ever present companion, and eventually, as a friend.
-Neither human beings nor the universe itself, experiences either and absolute beginning or and absolute end.
-In every instant we are born; in every instant, we die. Birth and death are two almost indistinguishable and imperceptible strands of a single rope of existence.
-Death is the inescapable destiny of all creatures and, given its inevitability, she has not cause to grieve.
-Death is the fate to which all living creatures come at the appointed time, and the unavoidable gate to another realm or state of being through which all creatures must pass.
-That person who faces death calmly, courageously, and confidently, desiring neither to flee it nor to rush into its grasp, will come to recognize death not as an enemy or a robber, but as an ever present companion, and eventually, as a friend.
-Neither human beings nor the universe itself, experiences either and absolute beginning or and absolute end.
-In every instant we are born; in every instant, we die. Birth and death are two almost indistinguishable and imperceptible strands of a single rope of existence.
-Death is the inescapable destiny of all creatures and, given its inevitability, she has not cause to grieve.
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes II
-By making death and dying a taboo subject and keeping children away from people who are dying or who have died, we create fear that need not be there.
-Illness frequently is accompanied by regressive behavior.
-The first thing the toddler does with a new sitter is to test the limits.
-If only we could be honest, both admit of our fears, touch one another. If you really care, would you lose so much of your valuable professionalism if you even cried with me? Just person to person? Then, it might not be so hard to die, in a hospital, with friends close.
-Chinese believe in face-saving, in status.
-Human volition is a powerful and sometimes determinative factor in dying.
-Judaism: three days of deep grief, seven days of mourning, thirty days of gradual adjustment, and eleven months of remembrance and healing.
-Illness frequently is accompanied by regressive behavior.
-The first thing the toddler does with a new sitter is to test the limits.
-If only we could be honest, both admit of our fears, touch one another. If you really care, would you lose so much of your valuable professionalism if you even cried with me? Just person to person? Then, it might not be so hard to die, in a hospital, with friends close.
-Chinese believe in face-saving, in status.
-Human volition is a powerful and sometimes determinative factor in dying.
-Judaism: three days of deep grief, seven days of mourning, thirty days of gradual adjustment, and eleven months of remembrance and healing.
Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes
-For many years I continued to ask terminal patients to be our teachers.
-The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day, and from hour to hour. What matters therefore is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
-I think Susan lived more in the last few months of her life than the 71 year old woman did in seven decades.
-We can only truly live, and enjoy, and appreciate life if we realize at all times that we are finite.
-In the decades to come we may see one universe, one humankind, one religion that unites us all in a peaceful world. It is up to each of you to lay the groundwork for this future generation, by making an attempt NOW to comprehend and care for your fellow humans, no matter what their creed, color, or philosophy. Through understanding that in the end we all share the same destiny, that just as surely as we are alive, so we will die, we may come also to understand that in life also we must be as one, aware of the appreciative of our differences and yet accepting in our humanness , we are all alike.
-It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar.
-The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day, and from hour to hour. What matters therefore is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
-I think Susan lived more in the last few months of her life than the 71 year old woman did in seven decades.
-We can only truly live, and enjoy, and appreciate life if we realize at all times that we are finite.
-In the decades to come we may see one universe, one humankind, one religion that unites us all in a peaceful world. It is up to each of you to lay the groundwork for this future generation, by making an attempt NOW to comprehend and care for your fellow humans, no matter what their creed, color, or philosophy. Through understanding that in the end we all share the same destiny, that just as surely as we are alive, so we will die, we may come also to understand that in life also we must be as one, aware of the appreciative of our differences and yet accepting in our humanness , we are all alike.
-It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar.
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
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