If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.

Death is the great transition.

Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

God, how I have wasted my life.