Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2007

Are we wasting our lives?

{denn heute ist mein Geburtstag, hurra!! ich habe Geburtstag!!}

u. muss wieder in altem Papier blättern, das auf meinem Schreibtisch herumliegt:

We have also to talk over together what is death. (...) And to understand death, we must also inquire into what is living, what is our life.
Are we wasting our lives?
(...) You may have power, position, but at the end of it - what? Please, this is a serious question that you must ask yourself. Another cannot answer this question for you.

(Krishnamurti)

{Und was hast du selbst dazu zu sagen, hineshm? - Talent ist eine Gefahr, eine Falle, ein Abgrund. Auch das wieder eine Art Zitat.}

2 Kommentare:

yael hat gesagt…

I do not want to be wasting my life!
How could I acknowledge to be wasting it and continue living?
Days are passing fast, I am hustling from one place to another, from one task to another.
But there must be a sense in this. Much like in training, in movement.

yael hat gesagt…

Our affiliations structure the way we see ourselves. We create our sense of identity through the expectations and culture set up by these relationships; they provide meaning and give purpose to our lives. Rabbi Harold Kushner, in his book Living a Life that Matters, writes, "It takes more than one person to validate our sense of mattering to the world . . ."
(from a sermon given on Rosh Hashanah Day 5764, September 27, 2003, by Rabbi Allison Bergman Vann )

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