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The Light in the Heart

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Roy T. Bennett
Roy T. Bennett

Roy T. Bennett is a renowned author known for his profound philosophical thoughts and inspirational works. His writings span across various domains such as life philosophy, self-improvement, and spiritual growth, and have resonated with a wide audience. more

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“The treatment wasn’t the dark time for me; it was afterwards, when I fell into a black hole. - The life I remembered just didn’t fit anymore. Everything felt different: I felt different, life felt different, the whole world felt different.”

“Go back to normal.’ There should be a rule that no one is allowed to say those four words to anyone who has gone through cancer treatment. How can we go back anywhere after going through cancer? Trying to ‘go back to normal’ is a waste of time; it’s impossible because there is no normal to go back to.”

“Please don’t try to ‘go back to normal’ after the trauma of cancer treatment, because you will not find it. The normal you remember before the treatment has gone, and the sooner you make peace with that, the sooner you can truly move on.”

“This is the secret: while you were going through the pain and sorrow of cancer treatment, everything inside you was dissolving and evolving, letting go of old parts of yourself and creating new ones.”

“Through the negative experience of cancer treatment you have the opportunity to rediscover yourself, to peel back the layers and connect with the very purest part of you that’s probably been buried for most of your life.”

“My life before cancer was great, but if I compare that life to the one I have now, post-treatment, I wouldn’t go back there for all the money in the world. No, really: if you told me you could rewind my life so that I never had to go through cancer treatment, I would say thank you – but no thank you.”