{"id":6693,"date":"2021-02-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=6693"},"modified":"2021-02-24T17:39:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T22:39:48","slug":"learn-how-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/learn-how-to-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn How to Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"Learn How to Live! 2\/26\/21\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/ha2jc-fbca21?from=pb6admin&#038;download=1&#038;version=1&#038;auto=0&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Helvetica&#038;skin=1&#038;pfauth=&#038;btn-skin=107\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mitch Albom wrote his best-selling book,&nbsp;<em>Tuesday&#8217;s with Morrie<\/em>, about the things he learned from his old professor, Morrie Schwartz, in the weeks leading up to his death.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On one of those Tuesday visits, Morrie said,&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Take any emotion &#8211; love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I&#8217;m going through, fear and pain from a deadly&nbsp;illness. If you hold back on the emotions &#8211; if you don&#8217;t allow yourself to go all the way through them &#8211; you can never get to being detached, you&#8217;re too busy being afraid.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou&#8217;re afraid of the pain, you&#8217;re afraid of the grief. You&#8217;re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cYou know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, &#8216;All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.'&#8221;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morrie stopped and looked me over, perhaps to make sure I was getting this right.\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;I know you think this is just about dying,&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>  he said,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;but it&#8217;s like I keep telling you. 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