Oh, it Hit Me

• The tension of opposites?

"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you should never take anything for granted."

"Love wins. Love always wins."

• About Family

"The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family."

• About Emotions

1. "Learn to detach."

Buddhists say: "Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent."

"But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it."

2. "If you hold back on the 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.

3. "Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely --- but eventually be able to say, "All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well." DETACH.

• About Aging

"Aging is not just a decay, you know. It's growth."

*more pages to go through*

I'm now halfway through the new book i'm reading (Tuesdays with Morrie).

Enjoyed almost each flip of the page and the insights about life that this book is offerring.

Personal inputs to follow. *smile*