THE NEXT PERSON YOU MEET IN HEAVEN - Mitch Albom

The tale of your life is written second by second, as shifting as the flip of a pencil to an
eraser.
There are touches in your life that identify the person making contact, even if your eyes
closed.
‘Heaven on earth”
What causes wind is a merging of hot and cold…
Why do people just say ‘unbelievable’ with things just happen? Wouldn’t that make it
believable?
How can life change this much in two hours?

Our time is linked to other’s time.We come from one. We return to one. That’s how
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“People lament that if their loved ones had been born fifty years later,
they might have survived what killed them. But perhaps what killed them
is what led someone to find a cure.
- Dr. Sameer

Heaven is a place where it intersects events of encounter with others.

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“We fear loneliness,
Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. It is merely a
shadow that falls over us. And just as shadows die when light changes, that
sad feeling can depart once we see the truth.”
“What’s the truth?” Annie asked.
“That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you.” The old woman smiled.
“And the world is so full of need.”
No act done for someone else is ever wasted.

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This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget
your own.
Like a shadow, they go where we do.
Just because you have silenced a memory does it mean you are already free of it
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“Love is strength,” Lorraine said.
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“It’s funny,” Lorraine said now, as the scene
appeared in front of them.
“You always wonder about your funeral. How big?
Who’ll show up? In the
end it’s meaningless. You realize, once you die, that a
funeral is for
everyone else, not you.”
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“I wanted a fresh start. I
wanted things I didn’t have with your
father—security, affection.
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Love is not revenge. It can’t be thrown
like a rock. And you can’t create it to fix your
problems. Forcing love is
like picking a flower then insisting that it grow.”
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“I was so ashamed. It made me hard on you, when I
was trying to be
hard on me. We are blinded by our regrets, Annie. We
don’t realize who
else we punish while we’re punishing ourselves.”
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She had come to believe that living with a
man was more about tolerance than romance, and
marriage was just
another letdown along the way.
…because we embrace our scares rather than our healing…
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“On earth,
we get the what of things. The why takes a little
longer.”
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“You’re not getting it,” Eddie gently replied.
“I needed to save you. It
let me make up for the life I took.
“That’s how salvation works. The wrongs we do
open doors to do right.”
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“There’s no such thing as a nobody. And there are
no mistakes.”
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“My heaven lets me see them
all.”
There is no such a NOBODY. NO matter how minute thing we do we think on earth, this will
soon become your heaven, where heaven lets you see how truly a Somebody you are to someone
and everybody. Like Eddie, the Maintenance who saved Annie.
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Annie felt a serenity
that mortal life had never allowed.
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Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when
you most need it.
Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no
longer deny it.
These are common expressions that hold varying truths of
love.
Listening is a form of medicine.
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And while she didn’t know it then, she was learning
another truth about
love: it comes when it comes.
Simple as that.
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In time, as with the truest loves, their lives melded
seamlessly, and they
knew it would stay that way without ever saying a word.
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“One small step for frog, one giant leap for the two of
us?”
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And I realized, if you truly love
someone, you’ll find a way back.”
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“This is the heart we’re born with, Annie. It’s
small and empty because
it’s been through nothing.”
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She would tell her of the secrets she had learned on her
visit, how
one life touches another and that life touches the next.She
would tell her that all endings are also beginnings, we just
don’t
know it at the time. And for the rest of her days, the child
would be
comforted knowing whatever her fears or losses, heaven
held the answers
to all her earthly questions, beginning with five people
who were waiting
for her, as they wait for us all, under the eyes of God and
in the true
meaning of that most precious word.
Home.
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All endings are also beginnings …