"The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you’re lying in your coffin….Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn’t it?"

~ Anthony de Mello, 20th century Jesuit priest

from Awareness

Wow.

Imagine you’re lying in your coffin.

It’s closed. And cold. You’re underground. Dirt is being shoveled on top.

You there?

…

Now look at your problems.

Changes everything, eh?

Now…

LIVE!!!!

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More:

"You’re not living until it doesn’t matter a tinker’s damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you’re ready to lose your life, you live it."

"Life is for the gambler, it really is."

"So love the thought of death, love it."