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Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death
It is by consciously confronting the certainty of death, and what follows from the certainty of death, that we finally become truly present for our lives. This is the kernel of wisdom in the cliché of the celebrity who claims that a brush with cancer was “the best thing that ever happened” to them: it pitches them into a more authentic mode of... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Feel grateful to death for giving you another day, another experience, and for creating the scarcity that makes life so precious. If you do this, your life will no longer be yours to waste; it will be yours to appreciate.
Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
mortality makes it impossible to ignore the absurdity of living solely for the future.