It is very important that you do only what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may live in a shabby place, but you will totally l… - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

Perhaps the biggest obstacle anyone faces in the effort to understand death is that it’s impossible for the unconscious mind to imagine an end to its own life.

time. Then you can relax. Philosophically, patience is like a muscle that must regularly be used, it must be exercised and trusted. If we don’t practice using the muscle in little, everyday situations — such as letting the tea take a minute or two to heat in the microwave — we won’t have a strong muscle to support us through life’s bigger challenges.