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The most powerful truth Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ever spoke that can redefine the next 10 years of your life
An unsettling mindset from an influential psychiatrist
How I react or respond to anything is how I live. Ninety percent of how I live is based on how I interpret what happens to me. The most remarkable stories of human resilience have been those who respond to pain, suffering, grief, and loss with a brave heart.
That’s why psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross observed that people who find their way out of pain are the most beautiful. She said, “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.” It’s a powerful truth that can redefine the next ten years of your life. Her wisdom is real.
It’s practical.
And reality-shifting. We spend so much of our lives running from pain. It’s natural. Who wants to suffer? You don’t. I don’t either. But Kübler-Ross notes suffering is a key ingredient in becoming a beautiful human. The people who inspire us, whose stories we remember, have walked through and climbed out of the darkest places.
Kübler-Ross says beauty is nurtured in the places we avoid. In the absurd. In the struggle. And in…
