Tag: Dying

We, the ‘healthy’ living have no context to motivate us to live as if time is limited

Daisies
The ultimate sophistication is simplicity, nature, and living well.

 

Epiphany just now: We, the ‘healthy’ living have no context to motivate us to live as if time is limited.

Only those seriously ill or injured, terminally ill, or fighting for their life, can possibly know for real the measure of a day.

What prompted this was Helen Keller:

So much has been given to me, I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

Anyone else wanna live like that?

Life has something wonderful in store if we don’t quit.

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What then, my dear friend asked

trapped
we discover we are not trapped, and can be set free

You know what’s really exciting about thinking for ourselves without restraint or condition? It’s the self-discovery we make when we start to become fully conscious of what we hold as precious  – the discovery that we really do have so much to be thankful for.

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Funny thing is, we are all that dying man

dying man
in roughly three months, Fall will be here (and summer, a memory)

Ask a dying man what’s important in life. Have you ever contemplated this? I have. Almost daily. And have concluded the obvious, his list will be much different, and incredibly shorter than the living man’s.

If this were my last summer, what then?

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