Learning from PD

[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

[dbiker2]

Thanks for sharing Chuck. I am discovering alot since I stopped working, mostly in the last six months. PD has slowed me down and helped me realize and notice what really matters in life. It is certainly not the accumulation of objects, it is the accumulation of friends. It is not getting all you can. It is giving all you can. It is helping others when you can and accepting help when you need it. There is a song that say's...What's love got to do with it... It's got alot to do with it. I hope this makes so kind of sense, thanks again for sharing.

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Darrell

[Googy]

Hi Chuck,

I have been thinking "where is Chuck", then today your great posting.Welcome.

Blessings,

Googy

[Bruce]

Chuck and Darrell, I was glad to see such wise words. I know for sure that having PD, has actually made me a better person as far as appreciating those little things and those things you both described.

If we need a great role model, just read what Googy is trying to teach us.

[Betty H]

Originally posted by 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

Chuck, That does make you think.
Thanks for sharing. I needed that.
Blessings,
Betty H


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