As for me, I'm on a search and have been, I now realize, all my life - to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questi...
And when people would say to Mom, I’ll include you in my prayers, it gave her great solace. It wasn’t a platitude for her—when she knew people were praying for her, it was something concrete and immen...
And a piece of advice that she thought was one of the most important things she wanted to pass on: You should tell your family every day that you love them. And make sure they know that you’re proud o...
After reading , I vowed that I would take a trip to my room every few months, and these have been some of the happiest days I've spent. It's an incredible luxury to be home and not sick, to wake up wi...
A phrase the doctor used had reassured Mom—treatable but not curable.
Everyone doesn’t have to do everything. she told me .people forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. i’ve had so much pleasure from beautiful things created by ot...
Did manage to read some pages from a book that’s also about how people can find strength they didn’t know they had. What book was that? The Book of Common Prayer, Mom answered. Didion? No, Will. Mom’s...
A book by David K. Reynolds, who had, in the early 1980s, come up with a system he called Constructive Living, a Western combination of two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on ge...
Mom went on to tell me, as we sat there, that she really believed your personal life was personal. Secrets, she felt, rarely explained or excused anything in real life, or were even all that interesti...
I'm on a search—and have been, I now realize, all my life—to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questions that I ha...
I spend my life collecting books and sentences from them: I've sought alongside ones I've stumbled across, and sentences I've forced into my brain through rote memorization alongside ones that just fo...
Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to the lives that once were theirs.
He starts to whisper a prayer. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from suffering. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from enmity. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from hur...
And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.
1. Ask: Do you want to talk about how you’re feeling? 2. Don’t ask if there’s anything you can do. Suggest things, or if it’s not intrusive, just do them. 3. You don’t have to talk all the time. Somet...
Loneliness can kill people—in different ways can actually make you die. Olive’s private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as ‘big bursts’ and ‘little bursts.’ Big bursts are things like...
It was the women of afghanistan,my mother believed,who-once they’d been granted access to books and education- would be the salvation of the country
Halpern wants the reader to think about the difference between asking How are you feeling? and Do you want me to ask how you’re feeling? Even if it’s your mother whom you’re questioning, the first app...
And sister and father and mother had. I was learning that when you’re with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.
A philosophy called Naikan, developed by Ishin Yoshimoto. Naikan reminds people to be grateful for everything. If you are sitting in a chair, you need to realize that someone made that chair, and some...