Les 5 regrets des personnes en fin de vie

None of it matters. Only love matters. If you remember this, that love is always present, it will be a good life.’

Unfortunately, most people give their energy to trivial things of no relevance in the long run.

Working in this field, I had long ago given up the effort of trying to hold back my tears. So much effort is put into keeping up appearances in our society, but it all comes at too high a price. The honesty of my own emotions also helped the families at times. It gave them permission to let their own tears flow. Some people had not allowed themselves to cry for their whole adult life.

Happiness is now and that is where I was.

I looked at her lying there, that gorgeous spirit now elsewhere. Smiling through my tears, I could still hear her voice in my head.

‘We all have a positive contribution to make. I’ve made mine, but while I was searching for my purpose in life, I forgot to enjoy myself along the way. It was all about the result of finding what I was looking for. Then when I did find work I loved, work I could do with the heartfelt intention of contributing, I was still results-based.’

‘I am not sorry for how I have lived, because I have learnt through most of what I have done. But if I was to do anything differently, given the chance again, I would have allowed more happiness in.’

To know my true self though, that divine wisdom residing within, I had to allow my feelings out. If not, they would always block me from reaching the potential of who I was truly here to be.

It is all we ever have anyway, the moment we are in.

It is too easy to always want more from life, she said, and that’s fine to a degree, since expanding who we are is a part of dreaming and growing. But as we will never have everything we want and will always be growing, appreciating what we already have along the way is the most important thing. Life goes so fast, she stated, whether you live into your twenties, forties or eighties.