Interview with Anita Moorjani
DIRK TERPSTRA: Our sister Debbie Ford who very recently passed on, said in an interview with Oprah: ”It is courageous to choose life, when facing a disease”. How would you react if somebody was telling you this?
Anita Moorjani: I feel that life is a gift and we are definitely courageous for being here and I think that is a good point that she made because I feel that we don’t give ourselves enough gratitude for being here and we judge ourselves by the wrong standard. Many of us think that “Oh I need to be like a monk meditating on a mountain top in order to consider myself spiritual.
Oh I’ll never be there, I do my best” and we think that the monk who meditates in the monastery for twenty years has to be worshipped, that we are nothing compared to him. I don’t see that as the case. My point is that to fully engage in life, you know, to be out there, even being out there in the workforce needing to make money to pay the bills and pay the rent, even that is very brave.
Or being out there sharing whatever you are and who you are is as brave if not more brave than sitting inside a monastery.
DIRK TERPSTRA: Of course you also made a brave choice to come back to this life.
Anita Moorjani: Yes, that’s true, I wanted to come back and I wanted to be fully engaged in life.
DIRK TERPSTRA: We can actually conclude everything with the inspiring words that you wrote in your book ‘Dying to Be Me’:
