Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths. – Epictetus, Greek Stoic philosopher (55 AD 135 AD)
World renowned peak performance trainer, Jack Canfield, was once asked in an interview which book most influenced his life. He replied that Dr. Raymond Moodys book, Life After Life, made a tremendous impact in his life as an author and coach.
Canfield went on to recount how Dr. Moody studied several hundred people who had near-death experiences in which they were clinically dead for several minutes. Dr. Moody found they all experienced a similar phenomenon of this lifting out-of-body sensation traveling through a dark tunnel, and at the end of the tunnel, encountering a spiritual being of light that loved them unconditionally.
The part of the book that really struck Canfield (reading this sent shivers through my spine!) was when he recalled that, according to Dr. Moodys research, these people were asked just two questions by this loving being of light: How have you expanded your capacity to love? and What wisdom...