When you die, what would you like your legacy to be?

I read Laurie's blog the other day about this topic , and invite you to a link to her article, Legacy - A Lifetime of Experience in the Aug/Sept edition of Sibyl Magazine (pg 5).

She asks in her blog,

When you die, what would you like your legacy to be?

Please share here, or in her blog.

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This is such an important question to answer for ourselves…so that we can do what we need to do to align ourselves with the legacy we'd like to leave.

That being said…I haven't ask myself that question in a long time!

I guess I'd like to leave a legacy that reflects my values of open heartedness, inclusiveness, forgiveness/non-judgment, acceptance, loving kindness and self knowledge/acceptance.  So my legacy is more conceptual than physical.

Thanks to Laurie for asking the question and to you for posting it here Meenakshi…I still have to think about this for a while, but this has gotten me started.

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I've not thought about this yet. Usually my thought is that I'd like to be liberated - not to be known, or talked about or have a name that is spoken.

Yet I'm sure that somewhere in here, there are things I'd like to be known for, and as I read what others share,something may ring a bell…

thank you for sharing Helen.

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Good morning Helen & Meenakshi - this is a large question. Sometimes it helps to break it down a bit into bite-sized pieces. For instance, what would I like my legacy for this day to be?  Before you go to bed you can review the wake you left behind you.  Was it positive, uplifting, constructive and healing?  Or was it otherwise?  Strung together, all of the individual days build a lifetime.

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Laurie, that's a great way to look at it.  And today's calendar page from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People said something that's sort of pointing to the same thing: 

”The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.  And this can best be done in the context of the week.”

This book had a profound impact on me when I first read it about 20 years ago and I still love it's message. 

I think what Laurie's comment and the calendar quote have in common is that they are about being proactive and aware in life every single day. 

Excellent…thank you so much Laurie.

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As the words 'diving deeper' have been running thru my mind with the feature with Sandra at Gaia Networking; I feel –what if we just say the first thing that comes to mind, without planning or judging or stopping it?

So–spontaneously I'd say
I'd like to be known as a person who was joyful.

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I like the idea of working on your legacy everyday. I definitely prioritize my legacy as what I have done for children. Volunteering, working as a sub teacher, and soon a counsellor, hopefully keep adding to my legacy. Added to my legacy would be helping people when they need it.

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Off the top of my head; I want my children to say I was a good mother. 

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Helen - I like what you shared from your calendar page.  Thank you.

Meenakshi - you are one of the most joy-filled people I know.  You don't rely on happiness that fluctuates based on external circumstances.  Rather, you cultivate joy; a state of being that is resident within.

Cindy - living your legacy daily.  I aspire to do the same.  I want to be remembered as someone who was positive, uplifting, constructive and healing.

Jenny - excellent aspiration – our children are the future. 

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Thank you Laurie, for seeing that! You know, one of the greatest legacies I think of is what I've shared in writing. There are people around me, near and dear ones, who may not even be aware of what I share online. Sometimes not aware, sometimes not interested!!! But it's where I'm most me. So I'd say that's my legacy and I'd like to ensure that my children know how to access it when and if they'd like to.

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Ditto, me too, Meenakshi:

“There are .  .  .  near and dear ones, who may not even be aware of what I share online.  Sometimes not aware, sometimes not interested !!! But it's where I'm most me.”   
 
JM
1937

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That I would be remembered for my love of good homemade food and my love for gardening.  That my grandchildren will know where “food” comes from, and bread doesn't come from stores only.  We can make our own.  That food comes from seeds in the ground and need to be tended and loved— And then eaten!! and everything tastes so good.  And that food that tastes so good takes a long time to make sometimes, but it is worth it. . 
That I loved all the plants including weeds, a lot of them edible, and they will remember delighting in knowing the names of different weeds.  Their current favourites are  Queen Anne's Lace, blue chicory and burdock.  That they will teach their children, and their children's children….to love the earth and love their lives.

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Mimi:  I read here a beautiful message for your children and children's children and everyone who reads here.   You teach and demonstrate true life.
 
Love of life, nurturing and growth. 
You can make your own life.  You don't need anyone else's recipe.  Out of darkness, that growth can seem like forever.  The process is yours and becomes you.   
The fruit of the life that is nurtured and loved tastes so good.  The blossoms are stunning.
Their fragrance, though unseen or touched, attracts many.   

Love and embrace diversity and be grateful.   

Mine is old ground but you've planted the seed here too, dear mimi.  

Love makes it fertile. 

Ooooh!  I'm stretching away up North to give you a great big hug!

Joyous Mary



   

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She gave so much of herself in joy, love, fun and enthusiasm to all who would accept.

Her hearing diminished with age but, there was no loss of sight or insight.  In many ways her insight seemed to improve and expand. 

Her life joins all the other glimmering lights in the Universe and will certainly continue to shine.  For one time she said, “When I go, I will leave a light on.”    

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Joyous that made my spine tingle

Her life joins all the other glimmering lights in the Universe and will certainly continue to shine.  For one time she said, “When I go, I will leave a light on.” 

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This is such a beautiful way to share and express ones on going existence…..Deep Bows to such a Divine group discussion ()

Everyone here, and that I have encountered on my travels, have a basic normality to what it is they would love to have ongoing as far as nurturing goes, [after ones death].  Each have certainly come to the same conclusions, and have said so with the utmost respect of what contains them within themselves when it comes to sharing the Love, on-going.

Loving care and a well nurtured soul is all I can ask for as well, when my remains hit the ground.  All I would pray for, is that the people that I came in touch with would respect the values and concerns I had - and lived by…for they are everything of a heaven that I bowed to here on Earth, and is everything that I will have in my loving heart for all eternity to share, after-wards.

Bless ()

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Wowee, Kazowee! 

Her life joins all the other glimmering lights in the Universe and will certainly continue to shine.  For one time she said, “When I go, I will leave a light on.

I've got goosebumps - that is an amazing legacy!

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…and you are a most loving heart that such blessed light's will be drawn to, my love.

Bless ()

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I want to leave a smile on everyones face that knew me.

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You know what, the legacy that I'm reading of everyone –it's what you are showing now. ~Lars, you make  me smile,
Joyous,  you light up the spaces you occupy,
mum, your loving heart is palpable,
Jenny, I can feel your children finding you a lovely mom
 mimi, I join you in loving the ones called weeds,
Cindy, I'm always inspired by what you're achieving in your life today

Laurie, I know you're smiling. See what you're bringing to life!
Helen, are you prepared to say something now, about your legacy?

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I'm inspired by the thoughtful sharing here. 

As I reviewed my first thoughts, I felt good about them…

I guess I'd like to leave a legacy that reflects my values of open heartedness, inclusiveness, forgiveness/non-judgment, acceptance, loving kindness and self knowledge/acceptance.

And I'd like to live in alignment with these values every day…with gratitude for this life and this moment.  Some days are easier than others :)

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I just finished reading all who have responded to this question and my eyes are filled with tears.  I am overwhelmed to be in the presence of such beautiful spirits. 
Do you see the ONE that manifests through each? 
And we are just glimmers of the WHOLE. 
Not a one could sustain it ALL. 
It is the Wisdom of Perfect Love, to allow only glimpses.

And it is through that same Loving Wisdom that we meet here.   

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“Do you see the ONE that manifests through each? 
And we are just glimmers of the WHOLE. 
Not a one could sustain it ALL. 
It is the Wisdom of Perfect Love, to allow only glimpses.”

Beautiful.

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Whan I'm dead and in my grave
No more good times here I crave
Place the stones at my head and feet
And tell them I have gone to sleep.

This is a verse from Freight Train, one of the songs I sing.
Actually, when I die I want my life to have counted for something.
 
 

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Inlink2009 - You said, “… when I die I want my life to have counted for something.”  Please share what you want it to have counted for.