FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN (by: Mitch Albom)
BOOKNOTES....
- all endings are just beginnings. we just don't know it at the time
- when your time came, it cme and that was that.
- heaven can be found in the most unlikely places
- each of us was in your life for a reason. you may not have known the reason at the time; and that is what heaven is for. for understanding your life on earth
- scenery without solace is meaningless
- this is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. to have it explained. it is the peace you have been searching for
- when you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished
1st lesson
- that there are no random acts. that we are all connected
- fairness does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die young
- why people gather when others die? why people feel they should? it is because the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect. that death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed
- strangers are just family you have yet to come to know
- no life is a waste, the only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone
- it's the thinking that gets you killed
- men adopt to captivity, some better than others
2nd lesson
- time is not what you think
- dying? not the end of everything. we think it is. but what happens on earth is only the beginning
- you get to make sense of your yesterdays
- sacrifice, we all make them. sacrifice is a part of life. it's supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire
- sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else
- you have peace, when you make it yourself
- parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them
3rd lesson
- things are not always what they seem
- better to be loyal to one another
- holding anger is a poison. it eats you from inside. we think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. but hatred is a curved blade. and the harm we do, we do to ourselves
- no one is born with anger
- love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman
- love like rain can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. but sometimes, under the angry heat of of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive
4th lesson
- lost love is still love. it takes a different form. memory becomes your partner. you nurture it, you hold it
- life has to end, love doesn't
- secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next; and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one
5th lesson
- ACCEPTANCE
posted by crissel at 8:37 PM
5 comments
