Dementia is not a death. For some, it marks a new beginning | Psyche Ideas
the words of Bismarck could be applied: “Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.” Varying this, we could say that most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make
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It used to be widely accepted that our hearts would simply weaken with age, that cancer was a death sentence and that conditions like Type 2 diabetes couldn’t be prevented let alone reversed.
Today we know better. We know there is plenty we can do to strengthen our hearts; that cancer can often be spotted early and treated effectively; that lifestyl... See more
Today we know better. We know there is plenty we can do to strengthen our hearts; that cancer can often be spotted early and treated effectively; that lifestyl... See more
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In the camps, survivors:
• Imagined teaching others about their experience
• Found beauty in small moments
• Helped fellow prisoners
"Everything can be taken except one freedom:
To choose one's attitude in any circumstance." https://t.co/mxxSkvzXEr
There is a way, with moderate moral imagination and considerable countercultural courage, to subvert this tendency without turning away from the reality and magnitude of suffering that we do live with — a way to esteem in attention and admiration not the unluckiness of what has happened to us but the luckiness that, despite it, we have become the p... See more
Maria Popova • The Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: Marcus Aurelius on the Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength
Then she came to a retreat with the American spiritual teacher Ram Dass, whose books (starting with Be Here Now) and lectures have inspired a generation of meditators. After more than thirty years of teaching and service to the poor, Ram Dass had had a major stroke. He too was in a wheelchair, his speech was impaired, and yet he was bright and joyf
... See moreJack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
So yes, there will be loss. But we should know that: -loss is natural and to be expected; -the consequences of loss will not be as bad as we imagine, especially if we are living full and varied lives; and -we never lose our capacity to learn, our capacity to love and, above all, our capacity to choose.