Mortal Wisdom Series

Click on each link below to listen to the 8 episodes of this series:

Part 1: Why It’s Good to be Mortal and How to Celebrate It

Part 2: How to Let Go of What You Thought Should Happen

Part 3: What am I Doing Here? How to Find Your Purpose

Part 4: There’s No Time But the Present: How to Be Right Here, Right Now

Part 5: How to Move Beyond Outrage and Forgive Everything

Part 6: The Power of the Broken Heart: Why Love is the Answer

Part 7: The Thorn and the Rose: Pain as a Portal for Grace

Part 8: Why Death is Life’s Best Kept Secret

From Watkins Publishing:

There is no life without death.

The aim of this book is to ease our terror of death so that we can contemplate our own deaths, and those of our loved ones, with less regret, disappointment and fear, and to learn to live with more freedom and joy.

Collected here are uplifting stories of transformation and healing gathered by Dr Karen Wyatt from the hospice patients in her care. She offers the seven key lessons the dying taught her, from suffering (“embrace your difficulties”) and love (“let your heart be broken”) to forgiveness (“hold no resentments”) and impermanence (“face your fear”).

The sometimes challenging, always inspiring real-life stories are combined with guidance on absorbing the 7 lessons into our lives through meditation and other spiritual practices. Teaching us what really matters in life, the dying show us how to live our best lives now with meaning, purpose and love.