I think that as you evolve spiritually, automatically your body tells you what is acceptable for your body and what is not. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross More Quotes by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross More Quotes From Elisabeth Kubler-Ross We all have to go through the tumbler a few times before we can emerge as a crystal. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross crystals adversity If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross tragedy soul life We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross medicine health exercise dying nowadays is more gruesome in many ways, namely, more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized; at times it is even difficult to determine technically when the time of death has occurred. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross lonely dying death Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross grief grace feelings We will never be enlightened unless we realize and own what our capacity, from the best of the best to the worst of the worst because then we have more empathy, more compassion, more sympathy for others who do things that are hurtful and harmful and we see, given certain situations, I'm capable of that myself. So, I'm less judgmental. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross empathy compassion peace As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross doctors matter death Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross strength love death Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross war mean death We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross progress complaining death Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross taught teacher children Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross dying earth death We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross finding-peace inspirational-life inspirational Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross unique earth special Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross coincidence-in-life purpose mistake Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross fearless men enemy Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or the spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal. You may interpret this in any way that makes you comfortable. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross growth self death Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross notebook treasure spiritual Memories are the only real gifts we can leave our children. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross real memories children Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.' Elisabeth Kubler-Ross change looks
