"In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, â€œDeath happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us."

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Source : Joan Halifax (2008). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.172, Shambhala Publications

Joan Halifax

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“When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!”
“Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956...But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.”
“Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.”
“Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.”
“I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.”
“We have to help decision makers realize that women's reproductive health rights are civil rights and that women need to be free to make the same decisions that men are free to make with regard to health care and whether and when to have a family. It's going to be increasingly important for women to speak up not only about being able to make our own decisions, but also about the importance of being trusted to make our own decisions.”
“I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, driving fast cars and motorcycles.”
“I am whatever you make me, nothing more.”

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