it is only by facing our finitude that we…
Page 62 it is only by facing our finitude that we can step into a truly authentic relationship with life Hagglund says, “If I believed that my life would last forever, I would never take my life to be at stake, and I would never be ceased by the need to do anything with my time. Eternity would be deathly dull, because whenever you found yourself wondering whether or not to do any given thing on any given day the answer would always be who cares?”
— from Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)
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The deepest traditions push it further still: the truly devoted person's hunger to keep growing, to keep drawing closer to the good, simply knows no bounds — there is always further to climb, and the climbing itself is the joy. It's also why facing the fact that the flight ends is not morbid; it is clarifying — only by facing our finitude that we step into an honest, fully awake relationship with being alive. Confucius drew the final line: the one who knows something is not the equal of the one who loves it, and the one who loves it is not the equal of the one who takes joy in it. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)
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