I came across this a couple of days ago(I think on Instagram) and although the entire quote resonated with me, it was the last few words that really caught my eye - "then dies having never really lived."
Now, after mulling it over in the "old grey matter" upstairs, it's exceedingly obvious each point within the quote, leads into the next. But, for the sake of this post, and with a focus on those last six words - do we run the risk as individuals and I guess as humanity as a whole - and end up missing the mark; missing the grand point of it all - "then dies having never really lived?"
So much has been written by others with far more insight them myself about life, living, finding our path or purpose in life, what is important in life or the priorities we attached to aspects within our own lives.
Not sure, that going on for paragraphs and paragraphs on what I just mentioned does anything more to add clarity to the discussion.
But, I can say with a degree of certainty that what the Dalai Lama eludes to in this quote or components of it has poked away along the edges or often into my own mental and emotional wellness for a long long time.
I suspect that there are far more other folks out there in the same boat as myself - perhaps not willing to admit it - but in the same boat nonetheless.
Ultimately, this is only a question or issue that you or I can answer.
In the movie "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" (who would have thought you'd about the Dalai Lama and Christmas Vacation in the same post), the wife Ellen says, "Clark, I don't want to spend the holidays dead." Since the first time hearing it(which was a long time ago), over that time I kinda re-wrote it to say this- "you don't want to wake up dead someday and realize you never lived life as you were meant to."
I'll leave you with this question then, "are you on a path that when you die you will have never really lived?"
--as always with love--
--- get outdoors; find isnpiration; discover yourself ---
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