Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life & Living by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (PDF)

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Is this really how I want to live my life?Each one of us at some point asks this question. The tragedy is not that life is short but that we often see only in hindsight what really matters.In this, her first book on life and living, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross joins with David Kessler to guide us through the practical and spiritual lessons we need to learn so that we can live life to its fullest in every moment. Many years of working with the dying have shown the authors that certain lessons come up over and over again. Some of these lessons are enormously difficult to master, but even the attempts to understand them can be deeply rewarding. Here, in fourteen accessible chapters, from the Lesson of Love to the Lesson of Happiness, the authors reveal the truth about our fears, our hopes, our relationships, and, above all, about the grandness of who we really are.

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⭐Elizabeth Kübler-Ross joins with David Kessler in their book “Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living” to guide us through life lessons and live fully in every moment.”Life Lessons” is Elizabeth’s eighteenth book. It’s a special gift as it’s the last book she wrote before her death in 2004. She had a stroke on Mother’s Day in 1995 that left her paralyzed and next to death’s door for many months. But she did not die. She says she’s still learning the lessons of life. God is shrewd; her head was not affected by the strokes. She can’t use her left leg and arm but she can talk and think. It’s her final lesson. She must work on receiving, on learning to say thank you. To be nurtured rather than nurturing. Throughout her life, she gave and gave, but never learned to receive. She must learn patience and surrender.Elizabeth says each of us has a Mother Teresa and a Hitler. The Mother Teresa is the best in us and the Hitler is the worst in us. The goal in life is to find the best, get rid of the worst and be authentic by standing in our truth. Admitting we have the capacity to be inauthentic and carry negativity is essential so we can work on the problem and release it. It’s not always easy to find out who we are authentically. The reality of the world is that some relationships don’t work out; there are supposed to be disagreements and disappointments.David says the grandest kind of perfection of who we are includes being honest about our dark side and imperfections. Elizabeth says the windstorms of life, makes us who we are. We are here to heal one another. Most of us spend a lot of energy keeping a lid on our unfinished business. We want unconditional love. To be loved for who we are rather than what we do or don’t do. However, when we feel unloved, it is not because we are not receiving love; it’s because we are withholding love from ourselves and others. Love has to come from within. We can’t solve all our loved ones problems but we can try to be there for them.In working with the dying and the living it became clear to Elizabeth and David that most of us are challenged by the same lessons: authenticity, love, relationships, loss, power, guilt, time, fear, anger, play, patience, surrender, forgiveness and happiness. The fourteen chapters reveal the truth about theses topics, show we are put on the earth to learn the lessons, we are not alone and we are all connected. Also to watch love grow and to see how relationships enrich us.I attended one of Elizabeth’s five-day Living, Dying and Transition workshop in the early 80s. It had a profound effect on me and changed how I viewed the world. She showed us how everyone has the capacity to love others unconditionally and that it is our unfinished business that keeps us from doing so. In her workshop she created an environment where we were encouraged to express our hurt and rage in an atmosphere of love and acceptance, so we could be done with it. Feelings were not talked about but felt. If sad, we cried; if angry, we were given a rubber hose and an old telephone book and told, “Have at it!” I was skeptical about what this outpouring of negativity would accomplish. Yet it worked. I was amazed how angry, depressed people transformed themselves into radiant, loving persons right before my eyes. I realized in this workshop that we are all connected and that our life stories are much the same.

⭐I will flat out say that I’ve been around the world and back in a spiritual fashion 100 times or more, read every major and hundreds of minor spiritual writers/writings, have studied spiritual works since the age of 10 some 50 years ago, and this book stacks up with the best of them. I will also tell you that if you think it is uninspiring and trite or contradictory — that only tells us the low level of your spiritual understanding, or perhaps the high level of your resistance to change. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was not only one of the great ladies of science and education, she was one of the great human beings to ever grace the 20th century. She was at once formidable in intellect, determined in will, indefatigable in service, but also had one huge golden heart and a soul that blessed everyone she came in contact with. Am I selling her too highly? No. I’m quite aware she had her faults and flaws — thank god, because otherwise she would not have become the great teacher we all knew her to be. We all know the greatest teachers speak from experience. EK-R was relentlessly honest. In this last book she spoke as she died of her resistance to patience and how difficult, even with all that she knew, it was to forgive certain things. I loved her for her humility and understanding. She understood me — a similarly flawed human being — and she will understand you, too.This book is not only for the beginner. Oh my god, it is so excellent for the beginner! I promise you that if you re-read it every five years or so, you will see with stunning accuracy and dazed delight how much you have grown. But this book is also a refresher course for advanced students of life. There’s not a sentence wrong, no missteps, no concepts that chafe. Even after all I have been through and learned I found myself copying out sentences from her chapter on “Surrender.” A little over-confident I am? (Imitating Yoda here.) Then I must kindly remind myself that as Richard Bach wrote about wondering if you’ve learned what you needed to, if you’ve achieved your purpose: “Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.” (From “Illusions.”) I may just live to 100!This is one of those books you can read straight through if you prefer to, or you can dip into it a little bit here or there, skipping around from chapter to chapter according to your needs and interests. Co-written by David Kessler, a lesser light, but still a light, the book serves multiple purposes. In my opinion Kessler’s writing is a bit more pedestrian than K-R’s with not quite the inspired authority she brings to it, but the various points he raises and stories he tells are worth reading.This is a book to treasure, and I beg you as a lover of truth (both you and me) if you find the book “less than,” chalk it up to a bit of immaturity on your part. But don’t judge yourself. Smile and say, “I’ll get there,” and put the book away for a few years. You’ll be glad you did. It’s a keeper.

⭐When I went through the toughest break up of my life, I read this book on my ipad. I needed to find out what lessons could be learned from all my pain and take a fresh look at my life to see if I was going in the direction that would cultivate highest self. Reading about life lessons yelled me start to heal. I learned so much I bought it as a paperback and gave it to my newly ex-boyfriend so he could get the most out of our breakup as well and grow from it as I was starting to do. He was thankful and read it happily. We enjoyed a few conversations afterward about our takeaways.Here are some of my favorite quotes:”On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle. Someone who needs to learn about love may be married many times, or never at all. One who must wrestle with the lesson of money may be given none at all, or too much to count.””When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.””You undoubtedly have faults, but they are not you. You maybe have a disease, but you are not your diagnosis. You may be rich, but you are not your credit rating… All these things are changeable. There is a part of you that is indefinable and changeless, that does not get lost or change with age, disease, or circumstances. There is an authenticity you were born with, have lived with, and will die with.”This book teaches so much and I have read my highlighted versions over and over again. This is a book you either keep easily accessible or buy electronically so you have it everywhere you go.

⭐Books rarely get a book a second read from me, but this is one of the few. It gave me even more insights and wisdom upon the second reading, being full of great words around the nature of our existence and how to find happiness within it. I guess I wasn’t ready to hear some of the advice first time around, yet the second time I was highlighting and bookmarking all over the place.A perfect book for anyone seeking a greater understanding of life.

⭐A thoroughly thought provoking exposition of out-of-body and near-death experiences and their relevance to our daily life. Kubler-Ross especially writes with insight as she has herself experienced such things.

⭐My mother passed recently passed away aged 90 and I was struggling to handle her death. Yes I knew she had had a good life never been ill but she had always been there. This book helped me see and understand her death. It also helped me cope with my sisters and her family selfish attitude. A great book it gives examples examples of every situation concerning love and loss. Brilliantly put together.

⭐I loved it, my husband disliked it! i found within it hope and the lessons that we can learn about ourselves and others if we begin to open our receptiveness to life and living. It deals with different emotions and uses them as lessons ie fear, loss guilt-all of which many of us feel/have felt and I found it an uplifting and a ‘read again’ book.

⭐This book will change your life. Amidst millions of self-help books, it stands out as a clear and thought-provoking call to a better life, where love and forgiveness are all that matter. The authors break down the challenges we face in life into simple, easy to digest categories with stories that you will never forget, like the old lady who came to a course on forgiveness, because, she said, she had nurtured hatred towards her ex for 40 years, but she needed to let that go before she died. Kubler-Ross is renowned for her work on death and dying, but this is the perfect handbook to have for living. You won’t regret your purchase.

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