My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.
Morrie SchwartzThe fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.
Morrie SchwartzItโs natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we donโt see ourselves as part of nature. We think because weโre human weโre something above nature.
Morrie SchwartzWhen you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
Morrie Schwartz