Find the Good
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End (Wellcome Collection)
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How can we live the good life? One enlivened by joy and community and meaning, that brings us a sense of worth and belonging and strengthens the people and natural environments
Dacher Keltner • Awe
This had been this woman’s secret: she had made everyone around her into wonderful people by her gift for appreciating them. Her capacity for gratitude had created a beautiful reality in her life. It had made ordinary people extraordinary; it had made the commonplace sacred. Her attitude had changed the nature of her life. This, I think, is the kin
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A look of pure relief, and gratitude, and joy, washes over her face, and in this look, in this courageous little girl, I find the thing I’ve been seeking, the philosopher’s stone that unites all the experiences, good and bad, of the last few years. Her suffering, her resilient smile in the face of that suffering, my part in easing her suffering—thi
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