Life itself is your career, and your interaction with…

Page 161 Life itself is your career, and your interaction with life is your most meaningful relationship. Everything else you've you're doing is just focusing on a tiny subset of life and the attempt to give life some meaning. What actually gives life meaning is the willingness to live it. It isn't any particular event, it's the willingness to experience life events. Uline page 162 how precious would life be if there was no such thing as death? You'd waste every second of it because you'd figure out you always have it. It is scarcity that makes things precious. That is scarcity that makes a simple rock become a rare gem. So death actually gives meaning to life. Death is your friend. Death is your liberator. try to learn what it's saying to you. The highest weight to learn is to take each moment of your life and realize that what matters is to liveth fully. If you live each moment completely you will have a fuller life and you will not have a fear of death. If you are living every experience fully, then your death doesn't take anything from you. There's nothing to take because you've already fulfilled.

— from The Landing (Death)

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While a friend could only ever tell you that you are not your body, death proves it; while a friend could remind you how little the things you cling to matter, death takes them all away in a single second. Seen clearly, life itself is your true career, and your relationship with life is your most important relationship — everything else you fret over is a tiny subset you have mistaken for the whole. And what do the dying actually do with the gauge once they can read it? — The Landing (Death)

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