Anyone who has had enough free time on his…
Page 18. Anyone who has had enough free time on his or her hands to consider the possibility that life might actually be wholly meaningless. It is as if Only after a person has been given everything that one has the chance to realize that everything might never be enough to really matter. It only takes a minor disturbance in the comforts of daily life, just a persistent irritation in an otherwise perfect existence, to bring on this dark realization.
— from The Landing (Death) · Sick Souls, Healthy Minds- How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag
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Part of why we look away is that living is, strangely, harder than dying — dying is a single passive surrender, while living demands constant attention and management, and can hurt far more. And there is a particular emptiness that ambushes the people who get everything they chase: it is often only after a person has been handed all they thought they wanted that they discover all of it might never be enough to make a life feel like it mattered. There is a subtler trap, too, hidden inside our fears. — The Landing (Death)