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The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
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What the Dying Teach the Living | Frank Ostaseski
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Ostaseski summarized the insights he’s learned from the dying as “five invitations to be present.” 1) Don’t wait. 2) Welcome everything, push away nothing. 3) Bring your whole self to the experience. 4) Find a place of rest in the middle of things. 5) Cultivate don’t-know mind. For 2), Ostaseski quoted James Baldwin: “Not everything that can be fac... See more
longnow.org • What the Dying Teach the Living
It is an incredible privilege to be with someone who is making this journey into the eternal world. When you are present at the sacrament of someone’s death, you should be very mindful of their situation. In other words, you should not concentrate so much on your own grief. You should rather strive to be fully present to, with and for the person wh
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Today, most of us lack the direct experience of being witness to a meaningful and family-centered dying process. We have outsourced the washing, dressing, and burial of the body of our beloved. Furthermore, just as grief is too often viewed as an illness to overcome, death, too, is seen as something to “fight.”
Amy Wright Glenn • Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go
Death and dying unite us in a common humanity.