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“Physical death is only one form of dying. There are other forms of dying:
We die whenever fear governs our choices.
We die when we sacrifice growth for security.
We die whenever we choose a convenient certainty over an inconvenient mystery.”
― A Life of Meaning: Exploring Our Deepest Questions and Motivations
We die whenever fear governs our choices.
We die when we sacrifice growth for security.
We die whenever we choose a convenient certainty over an inconvenient mystery.”
― A Life of Meaning: Exploring Our Deepest Questions and Motivations
“and as Jung pointed out, we seldom solve problems, but we can outgrow them.”
― Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey
― Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey
“a fear-driven spirituality will always diminish rather than enlarge.”
― Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
― Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
“Our lives have no outcome other than death, just as rivers have no end other than the ocean. At the moment of death, our only recourse is spiritual practice, and our only friends the virtuous actions we have accomplished during our lifetime.”
― The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most
― The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most
“In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.”
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
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