When dementia among the elderly was labeled “senility” and “hardening of the arteries” and was considered an attribute of natural aging, few people paid much attention to this condition because they considered it chronic, hopeless, and untreatable. Continue reading
Month: December 2013
You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. . . .
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Continue reading
Honest Caring
“It was so simple, yet I had never seen it. Continue reading
Difference between Heaven and Hell
And the Lord said to the Rabbi, “Come, I will show you Hell.” They entered a room where a group of people sat around a huge pot of stew. Continue reading
I want to live my next life backwards..
I want to live my next life backwards:
You start out dead and get that out of the way. Continue reading
Thank you for being a part of my life!
“When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a Godsend, and they are! Continue reading
When I participate in the fullness around me, I become a greater me…
“How often we forget that the very task we are doing may have more effect upon us than we have upon it. In our self-centeredness, we see ourselves acting upon our world and we lose the awareness that we are participating in a universe that is acting in partnership with us. What a burden we put on ourselves when we see ourselves as the only or the primary actor. Continue reading
Sharpen The Saw….
“This is the habit of self-renewal, which has four elements. Continue reading
“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in a bed with a mosquito.” – Bette Reese
Correcting the imbalance
Do you have the feeling, as I do, that in the tsunami of everyday life, we’re getting too much of stuff we don’t need, and not enough of what we do? Herewith my first set of suggestions about how to redress the imbalance: Continue reading
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