Back at ya Michele!!!

[Guest guest]

Your right!!!! There had to be the issue of quaility of life!!!! That

is just as important as anything else!!!!

Steph

[Guest guest]

I second that, Steff and . We can't let fear so over come us

that in our frenzy to find a cure we forget about quality of life and

living! The following is from Susun Weed's Breast Cancer Book.

Ruth

" You begin your walk toward death the moment you are conceived. Your

life is your walk toward death. And each day your life brings you one

day closer to death. Every day you have the opportunity to ask yourself:

`How will I walk today on my way to death? How will I live? By

others' fears? Or by my own unique truth? In beauty, in joy, with

awareness? From my heart?'

" Consciously or unconsciously, with acceptance or denial, every day

you move one day nearer to your death. Is today a good day to die? Are

you complete? Have you lived fully? Have you honored your dreams? Can

you look death in the eye without regret?

" Death is not honorable in your dominant Western culture. You set

death apart from life, portray death as if it were to be feared, as if

it were opposed to life. No, precious GrandDaughter, no!

" Death and life are lovers. They are dancing partners. One does not

exist without the other. Giving birth gives death, for death comes to

all who are born. Death makes way for life, for is it not said that all

who die will be reborn? Death and life in loving embrace; death and life

dancing. For there is only the dance, only the walk, the path, your way

from birth to death and back to birth again.

" Yes, GrandDaughter, your death is certain, but not predictable.

Your death is known, yet it honors chaos; it neither avoids you when you

would hold it off, nor arrives docilely when you call. There is no

medical miracle, no right thinking, no correct eating, no magic, no

saintliness, no bargain with God – or Goddess – which can avert

or avoid the truth of your death.

" Your death waits patiently at the end of your path, around a bend

you haven't noticed, hidden from sight. Your death. Your Way. In

your own time.

" So many of your modern healers, alternative and orthodox alike,

fear death. A diagnosis of cancer is made, and death becomes the enemy.

Fear of death – rather than love of life – chooses the

treatment. When you remember that every path ends in death, you can

begin to dance with your death; your choices multiply and you find your

way through the fear. You find ways to love your life without clinging.

You find ways to honor your death.

" Yes, we know, death still calls forth fear in you. It is hard to

honor it. Let us hold you, GrandDaughter. Rest in our gentle strength.

Let us teach you to embrace your fear, to embrace the truth of your

fear: with death your body ceases to be you.

" How can you honor your fear of death? Dance in the space between

knowing and not knowing, between being and not being, between living and

dying. We are here to hold you in your confusion. We will hold you in

the midst of chaos. We will hold you safely, we will hold you close, now

and whenever you call.

" We who are steeped with the wisdom of the years, we who have seen

the spiraling dance of life and death, we have something to show you.

Come with us now, GrandDaughter. Hold our hands and leap off the cliff.

Fall with us. Give yourself to space. And look! A spiraling flow of

sparkling joy catches you up and carries you off.

Let go into the sensation of weightlessness, of being supported by a

gently turning, vibrating spiral of particles that catch the light. A

pulsing spiral with no beginning and no end. A spiral that holds you

tightly, yet always allows you total freedom.

" Relax for a moment in the All. Reverberate with the silence. Let

yourself move in perfection, expanding and growing, into life, into

death, and, when you wish, back into life again. "

Excerpt from Breast Cancer? Breast Health the Wise Woman Way by Susun

Weed

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> Your right!!!! There had to be the issue of quaility of life!!!! That

> is just as important as anything else!!!!

>

> Steph

>

>

[Guest guest]

What a beautiful quote! What a beautiful way to look at life and death!

I found as a hospice chaplain that it wasn't death that people feared. What

people fear at death is how there are going to get there and also that they will

not be remembered for who they were in life and to the people who meant

something to them. People want to know that they are important.

So.....let's dance and laugh and love.

ruthiema36 ruthiema36@...> wrote:

I second that, Steff and . We can't let fear so over come us

that in our frenzy to find a cure we forget about quality of life and

living! The following is from Susun Weed's Breast Cancer Book.

Ruth

" You begin your walk toward death the moment you are conceived. Your

life is your walk toward death. And each day your life brings you one

day closer to death. Every day you have the opportunity to ask yourself:

`How will I walk today on my way to death? How will I live? By

others' fears? Or by my own unique truth? In beauty, in joy, with

awareness? From my heart?'

" Consciously or unconsciously, with acceptance or denial, every day

you move one day nearer to your death. Is today a good day to die? Are

you complete? Have you lived fully? Have you honored your dreams? Can

you look death in the eye without regret?

" Death is not honorable in your dominant Western culture. You set

death apart from life, portray death as if it were to be feared, as if

it were opposed to life. No, precious GrandDaughter, no!

" Death and life are lovers. They are dancing partners. One does not

exist without the other. Giving birth gives death, for death comes to

all who are born. Death makes way for life, for is it not said that all

who die will be reborn? Death and life in loving embrace; death and life

dancing. For there is only the dance, only the walk, the path, your way

from birth to death and back to birth again.

" Yes, GrandDaughter, your death is certain, but not predictable.

Your death is known, yet it honors chaos; it neither avoids you when you

would hold it off, nor arrives docilely when you call. There is no

medical miracle, no right thinking, no correct eating, no magic, no

saintliness, no bargain with God – or Goddess – which can avert

or avoid the truth of your death.

" Your death waits patiently at the end of your path, around a bend

you haven't noticed, hidden from sight. Your death. Your Way. In

your own time.

" So many of your modern healers, alternative and orthodox alike,

fear death. A diagnosis of cancer is made, and death becomes the enemy.

Fear of death – rather than love of life – chooses the

treatment. When you remember that every path ends in death, you can

begin to dance with your death; your choices multiply and you find your

way through the fear. You find ways to love your life without clinging.

You find ways to honor your death.

" Yes, we know, death still calls forth fear in you. It is hard to

honor it. Let us hold you, GrandDaughter. Rest in our gentle strength.

Let us teach you to embrace your fear, to embrace the truth of your

fear: with death your body ceases to be you.

" How can you honor your fear of death? Dance in the space between

knowing and not knowing, between being and not being, between living and

dying. We are here to hold you in your confusion. We will hold you in

the midst of chaos. We will hold you safely, we will hold you close, now

and whenever you call.

" We who are steeped with the wisdom of the years, we who have seen

the spiraling dance of life and death, we have something to show you.

Come with us now, GrandDaughter. Hold our hands and leap off the cliff.

Fall with us. Give yourself to space. And look! A spiraling flow of

sparkling joy catches you up and carries you off.

Let go into the sensation of weightlessness, of being supported by a

gently turning, vibrating spiral of particles that catch the light. A

pulsing spiral with no beginning and no end. A spiral that holds you

tightly, yet always allows you total freedom.

" Relax for a moment in the All. Reverberate with the silence. Let

yourself move in perfection, expanding and growing, into life, into

death, and, when you wish, back into life again. "

Excerpt from Breast Cancer? Breast Health the Wise Woman Way by Susun

Weed

>

> Your right!!!! There had to be the issue of quaility of life!!!! That

> is just as important as anything else!!!!

>

> Steph

>

>