We should try to treat every experience with the…
Page 133. We should try to treat every experience with the reverence we show if it was the final instance of it.
— from The Landing (Death) · Four Thousand Weeks-Time Management for Mortals, written by Oliver Burkeman
In the book
One woman used her photographer's eye to help people choose the five objects, or five images, that best captured what their life had truly been about; do that for yourself, and then go live so the five are true. Meet ordinary moments as if they were the last of their kind. Try to treat each experience with the reverence you would give it if you knew it would never come again. The danger, as Heschel warned, is that we take the whole world for granted and so lose the very power to feel it with awe and reverence; the cure is to pay deliberate attention to things of beauty. — The Landing (Death)