Sublime

À ces 200 personnes, qui cumulent 18 000 années d’expérience de vie, il a posé les mêmes questions : « Qu’est-ce qui vous a apporté la plus grande joie ? Qu’est-ce qui compte et qu’est-ce qui est sans importance ? » Il a tiré un livre de leurs réponses : Ce qu’il faut savoir avant de mourir68, dans lequel il distingue cinq traits communs aux expéri

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

“That which is hateful unto you, do not do unto your neighbor.

Deeply understanding and applying the power of love, combined with the spiritual protection of good cheer, is just about the wisest thing we can do for ourselves. When we commit to cheerfulness and to life lived in the loving expectation of goodness, the world becomes a beautiful reflection of these qualities.

I find the photographs cheering, reminders of my patients not as patients, but as people, of their lives beyond what I recorded in their medical charts.

The late Dr. Hans Selye, in his monumental research on stress, basically says that a long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others. His ethic was “earn thy neighbor’s love.”