The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. Morrie Schwartz
Morrie became famous when an old student of his, Mitch Albom, spent Tuesdays with him near the end of his battle with ALS and then recounted the lessons Morrie shared with him in a book. Morrie was a pretty smart man, if today's quote was his only one* he would still be smart. Today's quote is spot on.
Once you learn how to die to your self - your selfishness, your need to be right, your entitlements, your pride, your vanity, your fears, your insecurities, whatever else of yours that holds you back from living life - then you begin to learn how to live. An abundant, full, satisfied life begins when we die to our very self. How is that possible? Because all the things we have to die to hold us back from really living life. So once you learn how to die to those things your life will begin.
Morrie's wisdom reminds me of age-old wisdom from the book of John in the Bible. "He must increase, but I must decrease." (3:30) When we allow all that stuff to die in us we can be filled with what enables us to live a real life and real life, TRUE life, comes from the One who authored it for each of us. He holds the components of the abundant, satisfied, full life. So once we learn how to die then we will learn how to live.
Seems a Saturday spent with Morrie isn't all that bad. *grin*
*Turns out this isn't the only smart quote from Morrie's life experiences. Click here for more wisdom from him.
Morrie became famous when an old student of his, Mitch Albom, spent Tuesdays with him near the end of his battle with ALS and then recounted the lessons Morrie shared with him in a book. Morrie was a pretty smart man, if today's quote was his only one* he would still be smart. Today's quote is spot on.
Once you learn how to die to your self - your selfishness, your need to be right, your entitlements, your pride, your vanity, your fears, your insecurities, whatever else of yours that holds you back from living life - then you begin to learn how to live. An abundant, full, satisfied life begins when we die to our very self. How is that possible? Because all the things we have to die to hold us back from really living life. So once you learn how to die to those things your life will begin.
Morrie's wisdom reminds me of age-old wisdom from the book of John in the Bible. "He must increase, but I must decrease." (3:30) When we allow all that stuff to die in us we can be filled with what enables us to live a real life and real life, TRUE life, comes from the One who authored it for each of us. He holds the components of the abundant, satisfied, full life. So once we learn how to die then we will learn how to live.
Seems a Saturday spent with Morrie isn't all that bad. *grin*
*Turns out this isn't the only smart quote from Morrie's life experiences. Click here for more wisdom from him.
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