Soul to Soul: Aphorisms for Life

By David H. Rosen and Annahita Varahrami

Soul to Soul: Aphorisms for Life is about maxims that guide the growth and development of individuals. These principles gave direction as one proceeds along life's pathways. Hopefully the guideposts that are outlined will enable others to walk down their caminos in ways that feel sure and playful.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Release date: Feb 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781725295742

David H. Rosen

David H. Rosen is the author of such wide-ranging books as: Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity (1993), The Tao of Elvis (2013), The Healing Spirit of Haiku (2014), and Time, Love, and Licorice (2015).

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Soul to Soul

Aphorisms for Life

By David H. Rosen

Foreword by Annahita Varahrami

Soul to Soul

Aphorisms for Life

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

The ego, like Ptolemy’s earth, is not in the center; the Self is.

Existentially, it doesn’t matter.

Other people and cultures matter.

The feminine matters.

Mother Earth

Heal the soul through creativity.

Physician, heal thyself.

The Art of Suffering

Autobiography is healing.

Illness is a great teacher.

MS as Teacher

Medicine is a human experience, propelled by science but guided by love.

Desiderata

Loving ourselves allows us to love others.

By losing, you often win. Through failing, you succeed.

Choose egocide over suicide.

A crisis is a form of death and rebirth

It’s all good. No, it’s all Tao.

Dreams make us who we are.

Medicine often treats certain life choices as illnesses before it begins to understand them as ways of life.

Everyday is a good day.

Dreams lead to discoveries.

Life and creativity involve facing death.

Mandala is wholeness.

Patience is a virtue.

Losing things leads to finding things.

Friendship and guidance can help us overcome prejudice.

Loving gifts can break through conflict.

Let us love and embrace differences

Less is more.

Psyche refers to the psychological, but also to the social and biological realms.

Nature is sacred

Each person has a link to the divine.

You always feel better when you cook and laugh.

I’m alive because I’m not dead, but I’m ready to go to glory.

Never trust a computer that you can’t throw out the window.

If you want to be happy, let a vocation adopt you.

People give up on love, but love does not give up on people.

Love and accept yourself and others will follow.

God doesn’t judge us, we judge ourselves.

Loving a child is easy to do, loving one’s inner child is hard.

Loving a dog is loving god. Being loved by a dog is being loved by god.

Ask yourself what would happen if you said and did nothing.

Modesty is healthy. Excess is illness.

Aphorisms are like haiku, they are healing moments.

Parents teach us about life and death.

Parents are wonderful, but also grand.

Nature provides the opportunity for experiencing life and death repeatedly.

Spelunking through life relates