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Everything – Yes, Everything – Is a Gift

8 Ways to Start Believing It

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Roberts' mother and his father-in-law both died of Alzheimer's. His mother-in-law now suffers from the disease. In Cool Mind Warm Heart he movingly describes his wonder at the way Alzheimer's teaches us that humans can communicate at the most fundamental, heart-to-heart, essence-to-essence level. "My mother and I would sit together for hours without talking, and yet the 'conversation' we shared felt in my heart like the one we must have had when I was in her womb," he writes. "I learned that if I gave up thinking or needing or wanting or judging and just showed up with an open heart willing to experience and participate in whatever might present itself, magic would happen."

  • If you think you're socially responsible, examine your motives. Social responsibility is less about changing the world and more about answering for ourselves: Who am I committed to being? "We are learning that when we 'make the world a better place' because we are angry, say, to pick a common motivation – what we're doing as much as anything else is perpetuating anger," writes Roberts. "And if that weren't enough, we are learning that making friends with anger (one of the indispensable steps toward actually managing it) may be harder than quelling terrorism or feeding the third of the world's population that goes to bed hungry every night. How many of us would rather chop off our hand than give up our attachment to righteous indignation? How many of us light a candle for the planet while we hate those [damn] polluters?"
  • Decide how you want to die. Write it down. When the space shuttle Columbia

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