Gifted By Grief Quotes

“I cannot know that this is not the next step towards my liberation.”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“the tears – and the rage, as well – to simply flow, then, just like a river changes in the course of its life, the feelings change.”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“Jac O’Keeffe, ‘Thoughts happen. Not a problem. Believing in them – big problem!”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“Pema Chodron, Buddhist author of When Things Fall Apart, says: ‘Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better; it’s about befriending who we are.”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“Thich Nhat Hanh: Drinking a cup of green tea, I stop the war.”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“I also often used my own mantra of ‘Stop. Be Still. Listen. And Only Then Act’ during the day; it’s a very short form of silent sitting.”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“Silent Sitting is the term I use for what others may call meditation.”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“As Eckhart Tolle says, ‘Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“What Is, Is.”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“Eileen Caddy, one of the founders of the Findhorn Foundation, used to say it was not only important to listen to your ‘still, small voice within,’ but then you had to obey it, too.”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“I’d already become a bit fed up with the self-improvement movement; considering that if perhaps we are fine just the way we are, deep down, then there is no need for self-improvement. The idea of ‘accepting what is’ was by now actually very appealing to me.”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“I became more and more enamoured with the idea of ‘stopping trying to make things happen.”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“In fact, suffering is the result of not accepting what is.”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“It passed, as all moments do,”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“DABDA, as I called the stages (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance)”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“God/Source/Light/Love,”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth

“Ho’opono’pono is an ancient Hawaiian practice where you say, over and over again, “I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.”
― Jane Duncan Rogers, Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth