Tuesdays With Morrie Options

[*Kathleen*]

a;ghfds;gh;g I finished this book in a day. I couldn't put it down. It was so sad, but so amazingly awesome. I'm sure many of you have read this already, considering it's fairly new and a quick, easy read. What were your favorite Morrie aphorisms? Oh, and is the movie version worth watching?

[illumineering]

"Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone."

"Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They're more unhappy than me-even in my current condition."

"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks--we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?"

"Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it."

"You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent."

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

"Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore."