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If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.
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Grief, Loss, Want

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler (2012). “Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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We will never be enlightened unless we realize and own what our capacity, from the best of the best to the worst of the worst because then we have more empathy, more compassion, more sympathy for others who do things that are hurtful and harmful and we see, given certain situations, I'm capable of that myself. So, I'm less judgmental.
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Peace, Compassion, Empathy

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We all have to go through the tumbler a few times before we can emerge as a crystal.
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Adversity, Crystals

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There is no joy without hardship. If not for death, would we appreciate life? If not for hate, would we know the ultimate goal is love? At these moments you can either hold on to negativity and look for blame, or you can choose to heal and keep on loving.
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Death, Hate, Appreciate

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Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.
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Mistake, Purpose, Coincidence In Life

"Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch, Yoga Journal, Issue 11, pp. 18-20, November - December 1976.

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We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's experiences. Many of my AIDS patients discovered that the last year of their lives was by far their best. Many have said they wouldn't have traded the rich quality of that last year of life for a healthier body. Sadly, it is only when tragedy strikes that most of us begin attending to the deeper aspects of life. It is only then that we attempt to go beyond surface concerns-what we look like, how much money we make, and so forth-to discover what's really important.
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Years, Perspective, Missing

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How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
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Moving On, Death, Women

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Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
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Life, Death, Nature

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Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.
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Death, Procrastination, Knowing

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The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles...only by a spiritual journey...by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home. The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
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Spiritual, Home, Unconditional Love

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It is my conviction that it is the intuitive, spiritual aspects of us humans-the inner voice-that gives us the 'knowing,' the peace, and the direction to go through the windstorms of life, not shattered but whole, joining in love and understanding.
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Spiritual, Voice, Knowing

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Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or the spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal. You may interpret this in any way that makes you comfortable.
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Death, Self, Growth

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To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.
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Love, Life, Strength

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We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.
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Death, Progress, Complaining

"Voyage of Purpose : Spiritual Wisdom from Near-Death Back to Life" by David Bennett and Cindy Griffith-Bennett, (p. 6), 2011.

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I believe every person has a guardian spirit or angel. They assist us in the transition between life and death and they also help us pick our parents before we are born.
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Believe, Angel, Life And Death

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Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.
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Grief, Moving, Thinking

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My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.
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Taught, Patient, Dies

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And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and has also touched thousands of lives.
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Death, Real, Choices

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It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.
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Loss, Judging, Leaving

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We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
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Health, Exercise, Medicine

"On Death and Dying". Book by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Ch. 2, 1969.

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As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.
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Death, Doctors, Matter

"Another Door Opens". Book by Jeffrey A. Wands. p. 29, 2006.

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Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
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Love, Strength, Death

"On Death and Dying". Book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969.

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In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are raised in such a hostile and violent environment, how can we hope for a harmonious future for all people of this world? In this light, the purpose of human life is to achieve our own spiritual evolution, to get rid of negativity, to establish harmony among our physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual quadrants, to learn to live in harmony within the family, community, nation, ..treating all of mankind as brothers and sisters.
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Spiritual, Brother, Children

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Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.
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Death, Spring, Butterfly

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For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
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Death, Spiritual, Creativity

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Born: July 8, 1926
Died: August 24, 2004
Occupation: Psychiatrist
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