Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Quotes

"When life is "enough", we don't need any more."

If we see the past in a bad light, as lacking purpose or meaning, we plant the seeds that will grow into similar futures.

Yes, I have a plan for the day, I will go to work, I will mow the lawn, et cetera. But I surrender to the knowledge that my plans are just a working blueprint. There will be changes, paths I didn't expect. Wonderful surprises, maybe scary surprises. There will be situations that will lead me on new journeys. I trust that all this will lead me in a direction that will bring my being, my soul, to its greatest unfolding.

"Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life.
We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy. Sometimes we look for these things in the faces of our loved ones, in religion, God, or other places where they reside. Too often, however, we search for them in money, status, the "perfect" job, or other places, only to find that these things lack the meaning we had hoped to find and even bring us heartaches."

The reality is people have always died in large numbers in natural disasters such as avalanches, earthquakes, and tornadoes.

If not for death would we appreciate life?

-We are a mass of contradictions. Always trying to be more, yet trying to accept and love ourselves just as we are. Trying to accept the reality of the human experience while knowing that we are also spiritual beings.

We suffer, yet we can rise above our suffering. We experience loss, yet we feel love forever. We take life for granted, yet we know it does not last. We live in a world filled with less and more, with cycles of scarcity and abundance, big and small. If we can recognize these oppositions, we will be happier.

That is how change works, it usually begins with a door closing, an ending, a completion, a loss, a death. Then we enter an uncomfortable period, mourning this completion and living in the uncertainty of what is next. This period of uncertainty is hard.
But just when we feel we can't take it anymore, something new emerges: a reintegration, a reinvestment, a new beginning. A door opens. If you light change, you will be fighting your whole life.

Discovering and being authentic to our-selves, finding out what we want to do and do not want to do — we do this by being committed to our own experiences. We must do everything because it brings us joy and peace, from the job we have to the clothes we wear.

«La muerte es sólo un paso más hacia la forma de vida en otra frecuencia» y «El instante de la muerte es una experiencia única, bella, liberadora, que se vive sin temor y sin angustia».

Love has to come from within, if it is to come at all. And I'm still not there.

the truth is that life is risky and dangerous,

La única finalidad de la vida es crecer. La lección última es aprender a amar y a ser amados incondicionalmente.

para llevar una buena vida y así tener una buena muerte, hemos de tomar nuestras decisiones teniendo por objetivo el amor incondicional y preguntándonos: «¿ Qué servicio voy a prestar con esto?»

You are not your resume, your neighborhood, your grades, your mis-takes, your body, your roles or titles. All these things are not you because they are change-able. There is a part of you that is indefinable and changeless, that does not get lost or change with age, disease, or circumstances.
There is an authenticity you were born with, have lived with, and will die with. You are simply, wonder-fully, you.