Tuesdays with Morrie
"Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able
to do, Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it; Learn to
forgive yourself and to forgive others; Don't assume that it's too late to get
involved."
Lesson 1 --- Our Culture:
"The Culture we have does not make people feel good about
themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't
work, don't buy it."........." So many people walk around with a
meaningless life. They seem half-sleep, even when they're busy doing things
they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The
way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating
something that gives you purpose and meaning." ------ You need to
build your own sub-culture: "how we think, what we value - those you must
choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for
you."
Lesson 2 --- Death:
"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to
live."......."Why is it so hard to think about dying? Because most of
us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the
world fully, because we're half-sleep, doing things we automatically think we
have to do." "We are too involved in materialistic things, and they
don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we
take these things for granted." ------ Learn to appreciate
everything around you and experience the world fully, then you start to know
how to live.
"Death ends a
life, not a relationship."
Lesson 3 --- Family:
"The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground,
upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family....If you don't have
the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you
don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important."...."Without love, we
are birds with broken wings"
"This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but
letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them."
"Love each
other or perish" --- Auden
Lesson 4 --- Fear of Aging:
Embrace Aging --- " Unsatisfied lives.
Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found
meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You
want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five."
Lesson 5 --- Money:
"People wanting to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new
car. Gobble up a new piece of property...These were people so hungry for love
that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and
expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material
things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of
comradeship."
Lesson 6 --- Relationship:
"If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a
lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of
trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna
have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life,
you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike."
Lesson 7 --- Forgiveness:
"There is no point in keeping vengeance or
stubbornness."
"Be compassionate, and take responsibility
for each others, If we all learned those lessons, this world would be so much
better a place......Love is how you stay alive"...
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