I was thinking about a dream I had last week, where I was crossing a bridge into something unknown, being ready to move on to whatever is next.”
“But you didn't.” Morrie waited a moment. He shook his head slightly.
“No, I didn't. But I felt that I could. Do you understand?”
That's what we're all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying.
If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying,
then we can finally do the really hard thing.” “Which is?” “Make peace with living.”
He asked to see the hibiscus plant on the ledge behind him.
I cupped it in my hand and held it up near his eyes. He smiled. “It's natural to die,” he said again.
“The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature.
We think because we're human we're something above nature.” He smiled at the plant.
“We're not. Everything that gets born, dies.” He looked at me. “Do you accept that?” “Yes.”
“All right,” he whispered, “now here's the payoff. Here is how we are different from these wonderful plants and animals.
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