Chuck

Things I've learned more about from Parkinson's than from any other teacher:

1. Living in the NOW, for when I do Love is present and everything is OK. (Tomorrow exists only in my imagination.)

2. Winning a golf game doesn't hold a candle to giving someone a picture from my digital camera equipment.

3. I am no longer a lazy person, I am semi-retired (a very important perceptual difference).

4. I can love and be loved every bit as much with PD, and PD has given me the chance to understand what I have come to think of as a divine law, namely, if you give love unconditionally to the world around you, it has no choice but to give love back

5. I may not have much conscious power to choose my body (though I don't rule this out), but I do have the power to choose my attitudes.

6. We are all on the path to Love, and there is no right or wrong way to travel.

7. Perhaps as important as any other, yes I still have difficult days emotionally, but even these are useful when viewed as a reminder that as long as I inhabit this body I will continue to get opportunities to choose Love or to choose fear. And when I choose fear, as I sometimes do, then a new choice arises; to stay in fear or return to Love. This path is a matter of progress, not perfection, a journey rather than a destination.

Thanks, Bruce, for reminding me of this fact.

Love
Chuck

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Chuck