It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
Mitch AlbomThere are five people you meet in heaven,” the Blue Man suddenly said. “Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”
People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless.”
This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.
People don’t die because of loyalty.”
They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?”
Eddie shrugged.
Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.
Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
Mitch AlbomBecause if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Mitch AlbomStichwörter: life
When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.
Mitch AlbomWhat do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?"
That's big.
"Yes. But there's something else."
What else?
He leaned forward.
"Being forgotten," he whispered.
Stichwörter: faith little have
Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.
Mitch AlbomStichwörter: faith little have
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
Mitch AlbomStichwörter: belief faith action
If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.
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