When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated it as the enemy. I was told I had to join the medical team and we'd fight together to defeat it. This was the wrong thing to say to someone who was the last one to be picked for any team. I was much happier sitting on the sidelines and encouraging the other players. I was totally unskilled at defeating anything. So I secretly went my own way and decided that I was free to choose the meaning of the healing experience. I decided I would develop a friendly relationship with the cancer, which was something I was good at.
I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river. - Dawna Markova
I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.
- Dawna Markova
I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own d… - Dawna Markova
I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own d…
I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance. - Dawna Markova
I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.
Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow - Dawna Markova
Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow
Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sen… - Dawna Markova
Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sen…
The future exists only in our imagination it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express that can only happen when you and I are will… - Dawna Markova
The future exists only in our imagination it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express that can only happen when you and I are will…
Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, … - Dawna Markova
Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, …
Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that wh… - Dawna Markova
Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that wh…
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen o… - Dawna Markova
I don't think anyone 'finds' joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen o…
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