Psychology

Grandfather’s Brilliant Final Letter

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Grandfather’s Brilliant Final Letter To His Grandkids Offers Life Lessons For The Rest Of Us

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JIM FLANAGAN

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In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we’re revisiting a post we ran originally in 2012 in which an Irish grandfather wrote a letter of advice to his five grandkids just months before his untimely passing. Among his shared wisdom: “Be grateful. There is an Irish saying: ‘This is a day in our lives, and it will not come again.’ Live every day with this in mind.”

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Everyone who has come into my life has been and is my teacher

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I have learnt that life keeps bringing the same lessons to us again and again until we finally learn from them and move on.

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Inner State is far more crucial than Outer Circumstance

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“Eh,” Ajahn Chah would peer at me when I was

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Should people be honest?

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Ask anyone, “Should people be honest?” and of course their answer will be yes. It has to be! Saying no is to endorse dishonesty, which is like coming out against literacy or childhood nutrition—it sounds like a moral transgression. But the fact is, there are often good reasons not to be honest. When it comes to interacting with other people in a work environment, there are times when we choose not to say what we really think. This creates a dilemma.

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Love

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1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

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