
The Choice: Embrace the Possible

overnight. And you’re never going to be glad that he’s dead. But you get to choose a way forward. You get to discover that living a full life is the best way to honor him.” Last year I received a Christmas card
Edith Eger • The Choice: Embrace the Possible
And to be free is to live in the present. If we are stuck in the past, saying, “If only I had gone there instead of here…” or “If only I had married someone else….” we are living in a prison of our own making. Likewise if we spend our time in the future, saying, “I won’t be happy until I graduate…” or “I won’t be happy until I find the right person
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Time doesn’t heal. It’s what you do with the time. Healing is possible when we choose to take responsibility, when we choose to take risks, and finally, when we choose to release the wound, to let go of the past or the grief.
Edith Eger • The Choice: Embrace the Possible
‘We don’t know where we’re going, we don’t know what’s going to happen, but no one can take away from you what you put in your own mind.’ ”
Edith Eger • The Choice: Embrace the Possible
painful experiences aren’t a liability—they’re a gift. They give us perspective and meaning, an opportunity to find our unique purpose and our strength.
Edith Eger • The Choice: Embrace the Possible
used to ask, Why me? Why did I survive? I have learned to ask a different question: Why not me? Standing on a stage surrounded by the next generation of freedom fighters, I could see in my conscious awareness something that is often elusive, often invisible: that to run away from the past or to fight against our present pain is to imprison ourselve
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Maybe to heal isn’t to erase the scar, or even to make the scar. To heal is to cherish the wound.
Edith Eger • The Choice: Embrace the Possible
be passive is to let others decide for you. To be aggressive is to decide for others. To be assertive is to decide for
Edith Eger • The Choice: Embrace the Possible
good definition of being a victim is when you keep the focus outside yourself, when you look outside yourself for someone to blame for your present circumstances, or to determine your purpose, fate, or worth.