To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.
We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.
Tag: life consciousness future freedom explanation hope living understanding meaning transcendence escape patterns inhibitions human-beings day-to-day transport
In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see and scrambled eggs to eat. Life is essentially trivial. You either decide you will take the trite business of life and give yourself the option of doing something really cool, or you decide you will opt for the Grand Epic of eating disorders and dedicate your life to being seriously trivial.
Marya HornbacherTag: inspirational living suicide anorexia bulimia
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Elizabeth Forsythe HaileyTag: life death living sense-of-self
Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.
Natsume SōsekiTag: selfish human living life-and-living observe
I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living.
Kim KrizanTag: life write living emotion writer thoughts vulnerable
Living erotically is opening oneself up to nature-- externally and within.
Kristie LeVangieTag: life experience nature living erotic eroticism life-experiences erotic-living
And the fact was that he remembered once thinking that he was fine with dying anywhere at any time… but now, gazing at each corpse in turn, he thought with all his heart, I’m glad I didn’t die there. I have to go home. I’ve still got things to do.
Yukako KabeiIt always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen KingAnd that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.
Ted HughesTag: life living learning-the-truth
Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living.
Steven RedheadTag: reality free living life-lessons creating prisoner
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