Posted by: icesha | March 2, 2008

My Favorite Aphorisms From Tuesday’s With Morrie

Lily of the Valley

“Don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent.”

“If you hold back your emotions, if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them-you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid.
You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. “

“But by throwing yourself into these
emotions, by allowing yourself to
dive in, all the way,
over your head,even you experience
them fully and completely.
You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what
grief is. And only then you can say,All right I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now i need to detach from that emotion for a moment.”
TENSION OF THE OPPOSITES.. “Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but your bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted..”


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